Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. – Orson Scott Card

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Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. – Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927

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