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The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.
— Stephen King
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.
— Silas Weir Mitchell
When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards.
— Louis Leterrier
The psychological theories that inform day-to-day business practices are comprised mostly of folk-psychology, fads, and myths.
— Paul Gibbons
YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.
— Clint Catalyst
I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.
— Chris Robinson
Movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.
— Jennifer Stone
Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.
— Denis MacShane
Fairy tales and myths are born inside imagination's storehouse; just because something is considered to be 'a story' doesn't mean it isn't true.
— William Paul Young
If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
— Howard Mumford Jones
Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two
— Devdutt Pattanaik
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.
— Michael Moorcock
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.
— Rigoberta Menchu
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
— Natalie Goldberg
A city lives or dies on its myths," Cleaves said tapping the side of his nose and
— European P. Douglas
Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.
— Robert D. Putnam
Breaking rules and piercing myths..just a matter of mind and time..
— Abha Maryada Banerjee
She started telling Lyda stories, odd nameless placeless stories, about the man and the woman, myths or memories, perhaps from her own childhood.
— Julianna Baggott
The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.
— Robert Lipsyte
If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.
— Frans De Waal
Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.
— Anne Waldman
Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.
— Cameron Conaway
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.
— Konrad Lorenz
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
— Nathan Parsons
To change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.
— Riane Eisler
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
— Ray Bradbury
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
— Dean Koontz
Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.
— Raheel Farooq
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
The most barbarous and the most fantastic rites and the strangest myths translate some human need, some aspect of life, either individual or social.
— Emile Durkheim
Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.
— Jeff Bridges
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
— Natalie Babbitt
One of the most resilient and cherished myths of parenting is that parenting creates the child.
— Kevin DeYoung
Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was.
— Deborah Curtis
History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future
— Morris L. West
Rumors of glory are often hidden inside what many consider myths and tales.
— William Paul Young
Myths are, in fact ... neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it.
— Stephen H. Furrer
If myths, dreams and illusion are to be possible, the apparent and the real must remain ambiguous in the subject as in the object.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.
— Bernard-Henri Levy
The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
— Randall Kennedy
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
— Richard Dawkins
We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the other.
— Bryant McGill
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
— F. Sionil Jose
Earth? Golden Age? Stilgar was irritated and puzzled. Why would Paul wish to discuss myths from the dawn of time?
— Frank Herbert
Contrary to some of our great myths, the universe was not created once upon a time, but rather is constantly being created and re-created.
— Deepak Chopra
I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.
— Michelle Paver
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.
— Neil Gaiman
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.
— Diodorus Siculus
I believe legends and myths are largely made of truth..
— J.R.R. Tolkien
We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.
— Christine Downing
Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.
— Stellan Skarsgard
I sort of fell.""Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet? — Rick Riordan
They were the makers and enslavers of that life, and above all doubt the originals of the fiendish elder myths
— H.P. Lovecraft
The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.
— Lara Biyuts
Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.
— Robert Graves
Just because men and women of our era don't live up to the myths doesn't mean no one ever has, or ever will again.
— Christopher McDougall
I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. ( ... )
— Alan Lee
I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths.
— M.F. Moonzajer
There were all sorts of myths and legends surrounding the lake. I mean, we're Indians, and we like to make up shit about lakes, you know?
— Sherman Alexie
My subject is History of Magic," he said in his dry, wheezy voice. "I deal with facts, Miss Granger, not myths and legends." He
— J.K. Rowling
the society that cherishes and keeps its myths alive will be nourished from the soundest, richest strata of the human spirit.
— Joseph Campbell
Within infinite myths lies an eternal truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred You and I, only two.
— Devdutt Pattanaik
It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
— Sinclair Lewis
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.
— Phil Cousineau
Only in fables survives what cannot survive in nature. Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility.' Three
— Andrzej Sapkowski
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
— H.P. Lovecraft
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
— Ray Bradbury
'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.
— Peter Dinklage
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
— Robert Anton Wilson