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> [Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/myth-is-a-tale-once-believed-as-truth-believed-it-is-not-myth-but/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

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## More by Laura Riding

> [I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/i-believe-that-misconceptions-about-oneself-that-one-does-not-correct/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/to-a-poet-the-mere-making-of-a-poem-can-seem-to-solve-the-problem-of/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is evil just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/evil-i-had-never-found-satisfactorily-placeable-as-an-integral/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [“Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/forgive-me-giver-if-i-destroy-the-gift-it-is-so-nearly-what-would/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/the-new-ambiguity-means-in-a-way-adjudged-favorable-to-literary/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/conversation-succeeds-conversation-until-there-s-nothing-left-to-talk/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/women-ever-since-there-have-been-women-have-had-a-way-of-being-people/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [ She \[Venison\] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/she-venison-had-never-travelled-and-so-could-invent-all-kinds-of/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/rummaging-in-the-storehouses-of-religious-or-literary-history-for/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/the-terms-male-and-female-must-be-understood-as-representing-no-mere/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/the-object-of-all-religious-activity-is-to-mingle-the-human-and-the/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [Women are strangers in the country of man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/women-are-strangers-in-the-country-of-man/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/every-thought-sounds-like-a-footfall-till-a-thought-like-a-boot-kicks/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.' A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/politics-have-always-covered-two-distinct-kinds-of-problems-problems/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

> [To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding/to-tell-one-comprehensive-story-of-how-it-has-happened-that-what-is/)

[Laura Riding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding/)

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