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Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again. — Ross Macdonald

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia. — Robert D. McFadden

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

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around. — Johnnetta B. Cole

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

Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous. — Tom Robbins

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new. — Gilbert Ryle

Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended. — Peter Burke

Myth: Vampires eat only raw meat or drink blood.
Truth: Why would we do that when there's chocolate in the world? — Kimberly Pauley

There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. — Ivan Illich

Is love partnership for everyone? Is it essential to a life well lived, or is that just a cultural myth? — Jeff Brown

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

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery. — John Powell

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

In psychotherapy it is the myth of knowing this why as precondition for change which defeats its own purpose. — Paul Watzlawick

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

All things fade and quickly turn to myth. — Marcus Aurelius

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

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

Not all villains are bad, some are just hurt — R.L. Weeks

There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us. — Michael Meade

The addiction to the Soviet myth is as tenacious and difficult to cure as any other addiction. — Arthur Koestler

In the beginning was the myth. — Hermann Hesse

There has never been nationhood without falsehood. — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

You know what, evolution is a myth ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans? — Christine O'Donnell

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom. — Aristotle.

We live in our myths, we only endure reality. — Robert Anton Wilson

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place. — Albert Camus

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

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next. — Samuel R. Delany

Why are we so eager to turn a beautiful myth into reality? I — Anne Fortier

The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man. — Nikki Grimes

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek. — Alan Watts

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth. — David Christian

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them. — Karen O

The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop. — T. Geronimo Johnson

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

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

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich, — Anonymous

I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops. — Marilyn Quayle

You say we worship the sun; so do you. — Tertullian

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

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

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas

Myth murdering myth: that's war these days. — William H Gass

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up. — Martin Shaw

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. — Zephyr Teachout

Myths are lies that tell the truth. — Phil Cousineau

Life coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all. — Martin Edwards

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. — Peter Wilson

Sustainable success can only happen on purpose — Seth Czerepak

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. — Ambrose Bierce

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality. — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young. — Alma Guillermoprieto

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore. — Loren Eiseley

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. — Libby Larsen

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage. — Diane Keaton

Writer's block? A myth. It's your job, show up and do your job. — Caroline James

Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge. — Pearl Zhu

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed. — Simone De Beauvoir

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. — Carl Jung

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

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

The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast. — Lara Biyuts

Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics ... — Loren Mosher

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. — V.S. Pritchett

That love loves fidelity, she riposted, is a myth woven by men from their insecurities. — David Mitchell

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times. — Mark Rothko

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Stars are tragic. Most of the stars are nothing but reminders of love gone horribly wrong, or men challenging the gods. — Kaitlin Bevis

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth. — Tim Jackson

The myth is strong, because the need is strong. — Jerry B. Brown

Medea and the sacred wolf, J. Malachi thought. Somebody help me, I'm going to rehab in a Greek myth. — Eve Tushnet

I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history. — Pankaj Mishra

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King

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

I think a myth is created from truth. — Mark Lanegan

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

Huh ... guess they didn't want a cracker after all. Another myth BUSTED — Kevin Hearne

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one. — Jacques Ellul

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth. — Alberto Villoldo

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

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth. — Frank Delaney

The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise. — Jean Danielou

History is a myth that men agree to believe. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth. — Josh Groban