“Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was.” — Deborah Curtis Copy Share Image
“Any one can be a leader is often a passing myth, not always a lasting truth.” — Neena Verma Copy Share Image
Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics... — Loren Mosher Copy Share Image
Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Life coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children,… — Elizabeth Fishel Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art,… — Charles Burnett Copy Share Image
I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If I've learnt one thing, it's that I need to surround myself with people who want to know the real Pete Wentz,… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
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