“Myths are the retrospective transfiguration of sacrificial crises, the reinterpretation of those crises in light of the cultural order that has arisen… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not… — Melissa Farley Copy Share Image
Well, just to dispel all the myths, Walt [Disney] was not anti-Semitic. He was not racist in any way, shape, or form.… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant… — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“What is more, as J. R. R. Tolkien reminds us in his great essay on Beowulf, there is a danger that attends rational and… — Gregory Alan Thornbury Copy Share Image
I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth of the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives.… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin… — Edward Clodd Copy Share Image
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“A myth is 'a narrative involving supernatural or fancied persons embodying popular ideas or social phenomena.' Women love telling stories . .… — Lucy O'Brien Copy Share Image
I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Whatever else it was about, the feminist movement had no interest in exploding the myth of the mysterious and wonderful world of… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a… — Mitch Lasky Copy Share Image
When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important… — James Christensen Copy Share Image
“Rainie, mythologies take longer to die than people believe. They linger on in a kind of dream country that affects all of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
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