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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.
— Timothy Freke
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place.
— Christopher Moore
All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.
— Allan Wesler
Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.
— Alexander McCall Smith
A simple tale, told at the right moment, transforms a person's life with the order its pattern brings to incoherent energies. (Myth and Education)
— Ted Hughes
Love at first sight is a myth, but thundering sexual attraction at first sight is hard science.
— Daryl Gregory
Is love partnership for everyone? Is it essential to a life well lived, or is that just a cultural myth?
— Jeff Brown
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
— Conor Oberst
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
— Al Goldstein
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
— Frank Waters
It's a myth that boys don't like to gossip.
— Katie Cotugno
The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.
— Jessica Fortunato
Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.
— Terry Tempest Williams
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
— Linda Evans
Christianity is such a silly religion.
— Gore Vidal
A myth is a hypothesis about the personality of reality itself and not the personalities of individual persons, character types, or nations.
— Robert Bringhurst
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
— Joseph Campbell
Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there's usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.
— James Hillman
Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.
— Karen Russell
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
— Hunter S. Thompson
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
— Jeff Bridges
There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us.
— Michael Meade
The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.
— Robert Anton Wilson
The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.
— Belart Wright
It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
— Gavid Hood
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.
— Tim Jackson
That love loves fidelity, she riposted, is a myth woven by men from their insecurities.
— David Mitchell
When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.
— Gerald W. Haslam
Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
— Anais Nin
The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.
— Lara Biyuts
Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such restoration.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.
— Suzanne Somers
Writer's block? A myth. It's your job, show up and do your job.
— Caroline James
He is a unicorn. I want to gently capture him and bring him back to my lab for research.
— Amanda Mosher
Just another game he played in a world where heroes were legends and honor was a myth.
— Michael J. Sullivan
Dragons loved treasure, that was not a myth about his kind, and Rhea was the greatest treasure of all.
— Katie Reus
There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.
— Shel Silverstein
Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.
— Justin Simien
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results - of an extremely temporary nature.
— Aleister Crowley
Yet the idea that all humans are equal is also a myth.
— Yuval Noah Harari
Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.
— Diana Trilling
Myth: Bernanke Fed is committed to stimulus until a recovery occurs. Fact: The current monetary policy assures further capital destruction
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.
— Eileen Myles
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
— W. Averell Harriman
I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.
— Brian Eno
My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether ...
— Nikola Tesla
with in a infinite myth their lies a eternal truth who sees it all. varuna has thousand eyes indra has hundred and you and i oly two.
— Devdutt Pattanaik
There is no mystery. Truth is here - always present. Mystery is in the mind and mind is a myth.
— Rashmit Kalra
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
— Albert Camus
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.
— Peter Wilson
Every myth has a modicum of truth
— Lonny Lee
It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not.
— Mary Beard
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I don't believe in protein," I said. "I think it's a myth, like vitamins. I don't believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it's all a myth.
— Larry McMurtry
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
— Alfred Rosenberg
The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.
— T. Geronimo Johnson
Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.
— David Christian
Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.
— Hans Arp
Medea and the sacred wolf, J. Malachi thought. Somebody help me, I'm going to rehab in a Greek myth.
— Eve Tushnet
History is a myth that men agree to believe.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.
— Frank Delaney
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
— J.G. Ballard
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.
— James Ellroy
It is a generally accepted myth that all creation stories are myths.
— Joseph B.H. McMillan
A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.
— Paul Gauguin
A myth without a voice is like a dandelion without a breath of wind.
No way to spread the seeds. — V.E Schwab
No way to spread the seeds. — V.E Schwab
I think a myth is created from truth.
— Mark Lanegan
To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.
— Alberto Villoldo
The friend of wisdom is also a friend of the myth. - ARISTOTLE
— Christopher McDougall
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
— Anne Carson
For Trisha
The truth's in myth not fact,
a story fragment or an act
that lasts and stands for all:
how bees made honey in a skull. — Gregory Orr
The truth's in myth not fact,
a story fragment or an act
that lasts and stands for all:
how bees made honey in a skull. — Gregory Orr
Every fact is a myth until proven to be otherwise.
— Sapan Saxena
Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.
— Jacques Ellul
If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
— Alma Guillermoprieto
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
— Albert Camus
Why are we so eager to turn a beautiful myth into reality? I
— Anne Fortier
I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.
— Alison Goldfrapp
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.
— Margaret Halsey
You know what, evolution is a myth ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?
— Christine O'Donnell
I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.
— Josh Groban
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
— Aristotle.
I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.
— Marilyn Quayle
SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
— Ambrose Bierce