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There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

~Amandla Stenberg

Topics: Actually Allegory Apply Fantasy Form Ideas Learn Lessons Life Loved Much Originally Power Reading Real Real Life Really Take Think Why You I Think

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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

Topics: About Allegory Chamber Immediate Israelis More Much Music Palestinians Piece Political Same Sea Something Wrote

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Everything for me becomes allegory.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Allegory Becomes Everything Me

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I don't like allegory.

~China Mieville

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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

Topics: About Allegory Big Bush Global Great Movies Organization Other Own Secrecy Sort Threats Ways Whole Years

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For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political allegory,' and I think, 'Sure.' The political stuff is definitely there. But that's why I like fiction; there can be lots of different things going on, and it's all intertwined, and you can't separate out what's in what category.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

Topics: Allegory Category Definitely Different Different Things Fiction Gender Going Intertwined June Like Lots May Me Oh Out People Political Said Separate Story Studies Stuff Sure Things Think Why Wrote You I Think

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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

Topics: Actually Against Allegory Could Happen Happening Like Mythical Philosophies Situation Things Warn Within

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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

~Edmund White

Topics: Allegory Approach Become Characters Fables Ideas Some Thinks Writers

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I like to use horror as allegory.

~George A. Romero

Topics: Allegory Horror Like Use

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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

Topics: Allegory Anybody Forgotten Horror How Laugh Like New People Really See Seems Stuff Torture Trends Using

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