Allegory Quotes

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Truth, Lives, Invisible

Everything for me becomes allegory.
Charles Baudelaire

Everything, Becomes

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig

Work, Nature, Long

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
Naguib Mahfouz

Great, Taken, Lack

I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.
George A. Romero

Laugh, Stuff, Seems

V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening.
David Lloyd

Happen, Against, Situation

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.
Amos Oz

Music, Political, Same

I don't like allegory.
China Mieville

The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.
Chris Terrio

Great, Movies, Big

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