Allegory Quotes

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• The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either `explained,` or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory Robert Green Ingersoll
  Author: Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

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  Subject: Church Quotes :: Credulity Quotes :: Miracles Quotes

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• [Talking about making the original Robocop (1987)]: "When I was making it, I knew it was going to be a great thing, but you never know whether they are going to be successful or not. I knew we where making a fantastic social allegory, and, I don`t want to... Peter Weller
  Author: Peter Weller Quotes

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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
  Author: Amos Oz Quotes

  Keywords: about :: allegory :: and :: as :: chamber :: gutsy :: immediate :: israelis :: it :: more :: much :: music :: not :: of :: palestinians :: piece :: political :: same :: sea :: something :: the :: wrote

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

  Keywords: allegory :: an :: be :: comprehension :: great :: is :: lack :: literally :: meant :: not :: of :: on :: part :: readers :: some :: taken :: the :: there :: to

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• 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. Alex Garwood
  Author: Alex Garwood Quotes

  Keywords: all :: allegory :: an :: for :: has :: he :: in :: invisible :: is :: lives :: of :: only :: priest :: realm :: solely :: that :: the :: truth :: visible :: who :: whom

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• I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. J.R.R. Tolkien
  Author: J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes

  Keywords: all :: allegory :: always :: and :: cordially :: detect :: dislike :: done :: enough :: grew :: have :: in :: its :: manifestations :: old :: presence :: since :: to :: wary

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