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title: "Inspiring Myth Sayings"
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> [“A nation without a myth drifts aimlessly throughout history. Myth gives purpose and meaning to the civilisation. Myth makes a people a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-rosenberg/a-nation-without-a-myth-drifts-aimlessly-throughout-history-myth/)

[Alfred Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-rosenberg/)

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> [While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-scott-peck/while-i-generally-find-that-great-myths-are-great-precisely-because/)

[M. Scott Peck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-scott-peck/)

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> [It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-louis-gates/it-s-important-to-debunk-the-myths-of-africa-being-this-benighted/)

[Henry Louis Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-louis-gates/)

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> [“He breathed in the briny air. In a far less dreamy tone, he asked, “How was Death?” Loki clicked his tongue. “He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kaylin-boyd/he-breathed-in-the-briny-air-in-a-far-less-dreamy-tone-he-asked-how/)

[Kaylin Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kaylin-boyd/)

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> [All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/casey-affleck/all-cultures-are-different-some-commit-genocide-some-are-uniquely-2/)

[Casey Affleck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/casey-affleck/)

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> [One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-grant/one-of-the-myths-about-dad-was-that-he-was-mean-that-simply-wasn-t/)

[Jennifer Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-grant/)

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> [“For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/for-the-point-is-this-not-that-myth-refers-us-back-to-some-original/)

[Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/)

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> [ There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe \[despite recent developments\]. Historically the "America" of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruno-dumont/there-s-a-longstanding-myth-about-the-united-states-that-is-still/)

[Bruno Dumont](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruno-dumont/)

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> [It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oprah-winfrey/it-doesn-t-matter-how-far-you-might-rise-at-some-point-you-are-bound-2/)

[Oprah Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oprah-winfrey/)

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> [Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruno-bettelheim/plato-who-may-have-understood-better-what-forms-the-mind-of-man-than/)

[Bruno Bettelheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruno-bettelheim/)

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> [In myths and movies, the mentor can play a few roles: they bring the hero a magical gift, teach them how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-duarte/in-myths-and-movies-the-mentor-can-play-a-few-roles-they-bring-the/)

[Nancy Duarte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-duarte/)

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> [In the chummy corridors of the liberal media establishment, no self-satisfying myth is more prevalent than the notion that there are two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-brent-bozell-iii/in-the-chummy-corridors-of-the-liberal-media-establishment-no-self/)

[L. Brent Bozell III](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-brent-bozell-iii/)

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> [Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/hyper-selectionism-has-been-with-us-for-a-long-time-in-various-guises/)

[Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/)

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> [“Find your myth. As Joseph Campbell observed, "Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-moss/find-your-myth-as-joseph-campbell-observed-myth-is-the-secret-opening/)

[Robert Moss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-moss/)

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> [Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-soros/anticipating-attacks-i-should-like-to-emphasize-that-i-do-not/)

[George Soros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-soros/)

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> [“Just the class division of society creates two different, two parallel worlds/antipodes in this very society. And this means yet two polar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todor-bombov/just-the-class-division-of-society-creates-two-different-two-parallel/)

[Todor Bombov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todor-bombov/)

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> [There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shaffi-mather/there-is-a-social-stigma-attached-to-ambulance-services-mostly/)

[Shaffi Mather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shaffi-mather/)

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> [“As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practically everybody by the 'greed', that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/as-it-is-there-isn-t-a-single-thing-isn-t-an-opportunity-for-some/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

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> [Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-lott/depression-is-about-anger-it-s-about-anxiety-it-s-about-character-and/)

[Tim Lott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-lott/)

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> [“There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-weinberg/there-are-those-whose-views-about-religion-are-not-very-different/)

[Steven Weinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-weinberg/)

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> [I think the big myth about habits, and happiness too, is that there's somehow a magic "one size fits all" solution. That,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gretchen-rubin/i-think-the-big-myth-about-habits-and-happiness-too-is-that-there-s/)

[Gretchen Rubin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gretchen-rubin/)

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> [The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kazuo-ishiguro/the-reason-i-wouldn-t-dare-to-write-a-western-is-simply-because-that/)

[Kazuo Ishiguro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kazuo-ishiguro/)

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> [I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lili-taylor/i-felt-that-the-biological-clock-was-some-myth-to-keep-me-from-doing/)

[Lili Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lili-taylor/)

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> [The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-levi-strauss/the-work-of-the-painter-the-poet-or-the-musician-like-the-myths-and/)

[Claude Levi-Strauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-levi-strauss/)

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> [“Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/myth-makes-echo-the-subject-of-longing-and-desire-physics-makes-echo/)

[Mark Z. Danielewski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-z-danielewski/)

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> [“One of my favourite things to do when I write is to bring a sense of wonder to a normal everyday setting...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-de-lint/one-of-my-favourite-things-to-do-when-i-write-is-to-bring-a-sense-of/)

[Charles de Lint](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-de-lint/)

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> [It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/it-s-only-recently-that-i-ve-come-to-understand-that-writers-are-not/)

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/)

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> [My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-popper/my-thesis-is-that-what-we-call-science-is-differentiated-from-the/)

[Karl Popper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-popper/)

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> [The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conan-stevens/the-book-of-the-hobbit-was-given-to-me-to-read-by-a-friend-of-my/)

[Conan Stevens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conan-stevens/)

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> [Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/looking-back-over-a-decade-one-sees-the-ideal-of-a-university-become/)

[F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/)

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> [“Why are you here?" "To fetch the woman I cut from the veil of the rock." “Why did you cut?" "To send…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-garner/why-are-you-here-to-fetch-the-woman-i-cut-from-the-veil-of-the-rock/)

[Alan Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-garner/)

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> [“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-weinberg/many-people-do-simply-awful-things-out-of-sincere-religious-belief/)

[Steven Weinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-weinberg/)

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> [We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/we-are-faced-with-the-task-of-convincing-a-myth-infatuated-world-that/)

[Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-harris/)

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> [“Our practical faith in progress has ramified and hardened into an ideology -- a secular religion which, like the religions that progress…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-wright/our-practical-faith-in-progress-has-ramified-and-hardened-into-an/)

[Ronald Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-wright/)

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> [THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-riordan/that-perseus-always-won-that-s-why-my-momhad-named-me-after-him-even/)

[Rick Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-riordan/)

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> [“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virgil/but-the-queen-too-long-she-has-suffered-the-pain-of-love-hour-by-hour/)

[Virgil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virgil/)

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> [There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/there-is-something-feeble-and-a-little-contemptible-about-a-man-who/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/man-is-not-merely-the-sum-of-his-masks-behind-the-shifting-face-of/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

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> [Shamefully, Mexico isn't a country that provides opportunities equally and democratically to everyone. Although there is a myth as well about that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gael-garcia-bernal/shamefully-mexico-isn-t-a-country-that-provides-opportunities-equally/)

[Gael Garcia Bernal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gael-garcia-bernal/)

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> [“The battle is a collision of power, of gods themselves: man is only a pawn in these terrible games, or their scene,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-jaspers/the-battle-is-a-collision-of-power-of-gods-themselves-man-is-only-a/)

[Karl Jaspers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-jaspers/)

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                        "text": "While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it ensures the survival of the falling-in-love experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.",
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                        "text": "“He breathed in the briny air. In a far less dreamy tone, he asked, “How was Death?” Loki clicked his tongue. “He says he doesn’t paint.” “Bullocks.” Eros reached over to the table on his right and took up the fruity yellow drink with an umbrella sticking out of it. He took a sip and said, “He paints.”",
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                        "text": "All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity. In American culture, we obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where its taking us or what it means but I know we do it.",
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                        "text": "One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away.",
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                        "text": "“For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memory; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen, that must happen. Myth will become reality, however sceptical we might be.”",
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                        "text": "There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the \"America\" of this myth is an incredible human adventure and an experiment in political democracy. But at the same time, or so we're told, it's the land of extremes where the worst can happen.",
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                        "text": "It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself higher ... the law of averages, not to mention the Myth of Icarus, predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.",
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                        "text": "Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to \"real\" people and everyday events--knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings.",
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                        "text": "In myths and movies, the mentor can play a few roles: they bring the hero a magical gift, teach them how to use a special tool, or help the hero get unstuck. In a presentation setting, the presenter is the mentor. Our role as a presenter is similar to a mentor. We should be brining something of important value to our audience, they should not leave empty handed. There should be something useful and somewhat life-altering that we give them. It's not very often that we sit through a presentation and feel like we've sat at the feet of a mentor, but we should.",
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                        "text": "In the chummy corridors of the liberal media establishment, no self-satisfying myth is more prevalent than the notion that there are two types of national news networks. The first is Fox, the fiendishly opinionated, Roger-Ailes-manipulated Republican Party organ. The second is the non-Fox establishment, serenely gliding above the political fray on a magic carpet of nonpartisan open-mindedness.",
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                        "text": "Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth of natural harmony all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds (all structures well designed for a definite purpose in this case). It is, indeed, the vision of foolish Dr. Pangloss, so vividly satirized by Voltaire in Candide the world is not necessarily good, but it is the best we could possibly have.",
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                        "text": "“Find your myth. As Joseph Campbell observed, \"Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.' A myth we requicken in our minds and our lives brings creative juice, for every living myth \"bears within it, undamaged, the seed power of its source.”",
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                        "text": "Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I am not blaming Jews for anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism predates the birth of Israel. Neither Israel's policies nor the critics of those policies should be held responsible for anti-Semitism. At the same time, I do believe that attitudes toward Israel are influenced by Israel's policies, and attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby's success in suppressing divergent views.",
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                        "text": "Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.",
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                        "text": "I think the big myth about habits, and happiness too, is that there's somehow a magic \"one size fits all\" solution. That, \"If it works for you it's going to work for me,\" and it's just a matter of figuring out what that habit would be, whether that's do it first thing in the morning, or start small, or do it for thirty days, or give yourself a cheat day.",
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                        "text": "I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.",
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                        "text": "The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.",
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                        "text": "“Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason are concerned both claims are accurate. And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only science.”",
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                        "text": "“One of my favourite things to do when I write is to bring a sense of wonder to a normal everyday setting... Yes, there are magical elements, but there are also very down-to-earth elements and often what shines through isn’t the magic, but the lanterns that the characters light against the dark... If you substitute the words “fairy tale” or “myth” for “fantasy,” the reason I use these elements in my own work is that they create resonances that illuminate solutions to the real world struggle without the need for an authorial voice to point them out. Magic never solves the problems–we have to do that on our own–but in fiction it allows the dialogue to have a much more organic approach than the talking heads one can encounter in fiction that doesn’t utilize the same tools. [from the interview Year’s Best 2012: Charles de Lint on “A Tangle of Green Men” ]”",
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                        "text": "My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being accompanied by a second-order tradition-that of critically discussing the myth. ... In a certain sense, science is myth-making just as religion is.",
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                        "text": "The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12 years old: it set my life on a different path. Next, I read 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy, then 'The Silmarillion' and Homers 'The Odyssey' and every Greek/Roman/Viking myth book I could get my hands on. Pretty heavy reading for a 12 year old.",
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                        "text": "Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.",
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                        "text": "Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift… The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.",
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