The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
Myths that need clarification: Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach. False. The only people who live on California beaches… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“The most invidious myth of our civilization is the idea that any form of social contract can substitute for unrelenting moment-to-moment awareness… — Marco Vassi Copy Share Image
Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
“At its worst, the myth of the one savior is a lie told to the powerless. ‘Be good. Do as you’re told.… — Stina Leicht Copy Share Image
“And what it [a future myth] will have to deal with will be exactly what all myths have dealt with – the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth,… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block. — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,” — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.” — Tom Cheetham Copy Share Image
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history. — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman. — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
“There are more important things in life than chasing after this myth of perfection.” — Alison G. Bailey Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths. — Dominic Monaghan Copy Share Image
“The tempest hadn’t descended from the clouds—it had climbed from the depths.” — Deni Ar Dente Copy Share Image
“[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. — Peter Wilson Copy Share Image
Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
“We hold this myth to be potential Not self-evident but equational Another Dimension Of another kind of Living Life” — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
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