{"quotes":[{"text":"This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism. ","author":"Kamila Shamsie","tags":["memory","symbolism"],"id":1019,"author_id":"Kamila+Shamsie"},{"text":"In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.","author":"Eli Of Kittim","tags":["academic","apocalyptic","bible","criticism","exegesis","gospels","hermeneutics","inspirational","interpretation","literary-analysis","new-testament","prophecy","symbolism","theology"],"id":4038,"author_id":"Eli+Of+Kittim"},{"text":"The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.","author":"Enya","tags":["journey","ocean","symbolism "],"id":4534,"author_id":"Enya"},{"text":"The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such negligible quantity. The chief significance of the enterprise is therefore symbolic. And the symbolism, when examined even cursorily, doesn't seem too adorable. The intended beneficiary of the stunt is a ruling group with close ties to two of the most retrograde dictatorships in the Middle East, each of which has recently been up to its elbows in the blood of its own civilians. The same group also manages to maintain warm relations with, or at the very least to make cordial remarks about, both Hezbollah and al-Qaida. Meanwhile, a document that was once accurately described as a 'warrant for genocide' forms part of the declared political platform of the aforesaid group. There is something about this that fails to pass a smell test.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["activism","al-qaeda","antisemitism","dictatorship","freedom-flotilla-ii","gaza","gaza-war","genocide","hamas","hezbollah","human-rights","israel","israeli-palestinian-conflict","middle-east","palestine","politics","protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion","symbolism"],"id":6195,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is a genre that can tell an entertaining and enthralling story on the surface, and yet deliver a potent message underneath, where everything becomes a symbol of something greater.","author":"Dean F. Wilson","tags":["entertainment","fantasy","humanity","mythology","symbolism"],"id":7999,"author_id":"Dean+F.+Wilson"},{"text":"Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down 'Desolation Row.' I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it.","author":"Patti Smith","tags":["art","meaning","reading","symbolism","writing"],"id":13624,"author_id":"Patti+Smith"},{"text":"As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["adolf-von-kleist","mandarax","metaphor","symbolism"],"id":15140,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.' She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining.","author":"Ernest Hemingway","tags":["metaphor","rain","symbolism","war"],"id":15559,"author_id":"Ernest+Hemingway"},{"text":"...This cryptic game of hide-and-seek is what makes it one of the greatest historical mysteries. So many of the symbols can be interpreted in so many different ways, there's always the possibility that all we're really looking at is a blank slate onto which anything can be read.","author":"Brad Meltzer","tags":["blank-slate","clues","conspiracies","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theory","critical-thinking","cryptic","following-clues","hide-and-seek","interpretation","interpreting-literature","mysteries","mystery","possibilities","projecting","reading-into-everything","reading-into-things","symbolism","symbology","symbology-transference","symbols"],"id":39806,"author_id":"Brad+Meltzer"},{"text":"What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and multiple returns of Christ, but only one decisive coming at the end of the world, which includes the resurrection, the rapture, and his appearance in the sky!","author":"Eli Of Kittim","tags":["academic","bible","end-times","exegesis","hermeneutics","inspirational","interpretation","jesus","messiah","mysticism","prophecy","religion","spirituality","symbolism"],"id":41655,"author_id":"Eli+Of+Kittim"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":90,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}