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It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.
— Diana Gabaldon
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
— Joseph Campbell
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.
— Robert Coover
The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia.
— Robert D. McFadden
Movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.
— Jennifer Stone
The secret was probably the appearance of fiction. Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any
— Yuval Noah Harari
India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths.
— Amish Tripathi
Unfortunately, Feng Shui has mingled with superstition. Luckily, it's easy to expose myths. Don't think 'things', think 'energy'.
— Stefan Emunds
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
Mind Your Language in the Presence of PatriachsQ. When is rape not rape?
A. When it is your father or stepfather. — S. Caroline Taylor
Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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
Dreams are private myths; myths are shared dreams").
— Daniel Goleman
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
People need foundation myths.
— Tom McCarthy
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
— Kent McCord
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
— David Christian
Breaking rules and piercing myths..just a matter of mind and time..
— Abha Maryada Banerjee
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
Most myths are true, at least in part.
— Cassandra Clare
Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration.
— Anne Waldman
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
— Gilbert Murray
'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.
— Peter Dinklage
All myths have a basis in fact
— Samaire Provost
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Myths are often entertaining, but they're never very helpful.
— Lemony Snicket
Can anyone deny that we are haunted? What is it that crouches under the myths we have made? Always the physical presence of something split off.
— Jeanette Winterson
He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
— G.K. Chesterton
If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up.
— David Mitchell
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
— Aristotle.
The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
— Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.
— Joseph Campbell
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
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
— Octavio Paz
Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings.
— James P. Carse
Yet all myths are symbolic of some truth," she pointed out, "else they would not endure the ages.
— Melissa McPhail
Only in fables survives what cannot survive in nature. Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility.' Three
— Andrzej Sapkowski
If people are busy living out myths you don't like, leave them to it.
— Samuel R. Delany
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Myths are, however, to a people what dreams are to individuals.
— Murad Ali Baig
(what myths of any religion are rational?).
— John H. Martin
The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.
— Lara Biyuts
They were the makers and enslavers of that life, and above all doubt the originals of the fiendish elder myths
— H.P. Lovecraft
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
— Edith Hamilton
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
The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.
— Martin Shaw
It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance.
— Sulari Gentill
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
Mythology works ... because Indians have been bred on myths.
— Ashwin Sanghi
We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.
— Christine Downing
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
— Jimmy Carter
I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.
— Michelle Paver
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
Myths are lies that tell the truth.
— Phil Cousineau
Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.
— Bryan Sykes
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 live in our myths, we only endure reality.
— Robert Anton Wilson
It is a generally accepted myth that all creation stories are myths.
— Joseph B.H. McMillan
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
— Jeff Bridges
Every fact is a myth until proven to be otherwise.
— Sapan Saxena
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
It is no better if your son rapes a woman than when your daughter gets raped. It is equally painful, may be more.~ Rudransh Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam
I sort of fell.""Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet? — Rick Riordan
Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.
— Stellan Skarsgard
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
— F. Sionil Jose
Chiron looked surprised. I thought that would be obvious enough. The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.
— Rick Riordan
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.
— John Maynard Smith
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.
— Peggy Noonan
Earth? Golden Age? Stilgar was irritated and puzzled. Why would Paul wish to discuss myths from the dawn of time?
— Frank Herbert
In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
— Samuel R. Delany
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
— Amish Tripathi
I am attracted to myths.
— Tina Turner
