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My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.
— Dave Morris
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.
— Stephen King
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
Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.
— Bryant McGill
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
The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.
— Denis MacShane
Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.
— Bruno Bettelheim
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
— Joseph Campbell
If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
— Howard Mumford Jones
Mind Your Language in the Presence of PatriachsQ. When is rape not rape?
A. When it is your father or stepfather. — S. Caroline Taylor
They made up all those myths in the time before there was anything called science.
— Jostein Gaarder
The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.
— Annie Jacobsen
Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.
— Kim Hyesoon
The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.
— William Monahan
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
— David Christian
It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.
— Publius Papinius Statius
I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.
— Bharati Mukherjee
The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.
— Robert Lipsyte
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
— Joseph Campbell
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
— Richard Le Gallienne
The Enlightenment sought to rid the world of myths, but the nation could not justify itself without them.
— George Friedman
Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.
— Saul Friedlander
The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)
— Robin R. Meyers
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
— Ray Bradbury
One of the most resilient and cherished myths of parenting is that parenting creates the child.
— Kevin DeYoung
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Yet all myths are symbolic of some truth," she pointed out, "else they would not endure the ages.
— Melissa McPhail
Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.
— Beto O'Rourke
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
— Colin Farrell
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.
— William Irwin Thompson
Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked
— Margaret Atwood
Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.
— Richard Dawkins
Smiled with amusement at the myths of these country boys.
— John Steinbeck
Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.
— Jeff Bridges
Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination
— James Christensen
I have the deepest respect even for Pagan myths, still more for the myths in Holy Scripture.
— C.S. Lewis
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
— Andrew O'Hagan
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.
— Michel Tournier
I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
— Charles Hazlewood
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
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
'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.
— Peter Dinklage
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
— Octavio Paz
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
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
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
— Ray Bradbury
Myths are lies that tell the truth.
— Phil Cousineau
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
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
— Jeff Bridges
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
— Carl Jung
Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.
— Joseph Campbell
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
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
— Edith Hamilton
They were the makers and enslavers of that life, and above all doubt the originals of the fiendish elder myths
— H.P. Lovecraft
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths.
— M.F. Moonzajer
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.
— Konrad Lorenz
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[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.
— Joseph Campbell
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
— Dean Koontz
Perfection's a myth, the latter was only meant to define it.
— Sachin Kumar Puli
the society that cherishes and keeps its myths alive will be nourished from the soundest, richest strata of the human spirit.
— Joseph Campbell
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
One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.
— Lynn Crilly
The social norms that sustained them were based neither on ingrained instincts nor on personal acquaintances, but rather on belief in shared myths.
— Yuval Noah Harari
I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. ( ... )
— Alan Lee
We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.
— Cameron Conaway
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
Are the legends true?" asked Cadmus. "Of course they are," replied Pan. "We live in an age of legends.
— Sulari Gentill
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
— Harold Bloom
