While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Jesse [James] was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,' Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
The myth of the poor Jesus needs to be destroyed, because it's holding people back. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the French managed to get a death on the myth that they produce the world's best food. The… — Clarissa Dickson Wright Copy Share Image
I think it's a bit of a myth that black Americans need one leader. We're not a monolith. And now that legal… — John Legend Copy Share Image
The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot.… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
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