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title: "Inspiring Myth Lines"
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> [You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilona-andrews/you-re-like-a-god-from-a-greek-myth-saiman-you-have-no-empathy-you/)

[Ilona Andrews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilona-andrews/)

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> [We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kent-nerburn/we-measure-our-presence-in-generations-we-cannot-dig-down-ten/)

[Kent Nerburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kent-nerburn/)

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> [Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liz-williams/contemporary-paganism-gives-me-a-subjective-lens-through-which-the/)

[Liz Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liz-williams/)

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> [There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-alexander/there-is-a-myth-sometimes-widespread-that-a-person-need-only-do-inner/)

[Christopher Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-alexander/)

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> [Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-gatiss/europe-is-so-much-the-home-of-horror-with-its-myths-of-vampires/)

[Mark Gatiss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-gatiss/)

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> [“-’Tell me’, he said, ‘who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one’? -’A happy one, of course.’ -’Wrong. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeline-miller/tell-me-he-said-who-gives-better-offerings-a-miserable-man-or-a-happy/)

[Madeline Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeline-miller/)

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> [There's a reason why trainspotters are not girls, there's a reason why there's the myth of the slightly autistic male genius, there's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-messud/there-s-a-reason-why-trainspotters-are-not-girls-there-s-a-reason-why/)

[Claire Messud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-messud/)

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> [Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/mythology-is-not-a-lie-mythology-is-poetry-it-is-metaphorical-it-has/)

[Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/)

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> [Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-agassiz/today-our-duty-is-to-destroy-the-myth-of-evolution-considered-as-a/)

[Louis Agassiz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-agassiz/)

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> [Essentially, not only do we believe in this myth of 'de-risking', but it has become the one overriding goal; de-risking above growth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andreas-antonopoulos/essentially-not-only-do-we-believe-in-this-myth-of-de-risking-but-it/)

[Andreas Antonopoulos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andreas-antonopoulos/)

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> [If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kennedy/if-somebody-harbours-delusions-i-think-that-should-disqualify-them/)

[John F. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kennedy/)

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> [People believe that if a hijra curses you, bad things will happen. That God Ram blessed hijras with this power, that our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laxmi-narayan-tripathi/people-believe-that-if-a-hijra-curses-you-bad-things-will-happen-that/)

[Laxmi Narayan Tripathi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laxmi-narayan-tripathi/)

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> [When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/when-i-became-convinced-that-the-universe-is-natural-that-all-the-2/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [“We have seen that there are two misconceptions involved in the myth that memory is a thing. One is that memory is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-l-higbee/we-have-seen-that-there-are-two-misconceptions-involved-in-the-myth/)

[Kenneth L. Higbee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-l-higbee/)

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> [All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/all-artists-they-say-are-a-little-mad-this-madness-is-to-a-certain/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

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> [If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pinker/if-the-myth-of-pure-evil-is-that-evil-is-committed-with-the-intention/)

[Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pinker/)

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> [The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-werner-fassbinder/the-more-real-things-get-the-more-like-myths-they-become-there-have/)

[Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-werner-fassbinder/)

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> [I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-lethem/i-ve-always-felt-that-the-writing-i-responded-to-most-the-novels-and/)

[Jonathan Lethem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-lethem/)

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> [I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-firth/i-had-heard-all-sorts-of-stories-about-woody-allen-s-directing/)

[Colin Firth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-firth/)

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> [We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-marber/we-arrive-with-our-baggage-and-for-a-while-they-re-brilliant-they-re/)

[Patrick Marber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-marber/)

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> [I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creat­ing life. Or some kind of energy or anti­gravity. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debbie-harry/i-think-that-g-o-d-is-like-the-answer-to-a-formula-for-creat-ing-life/)

[Debbie Harry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debbie-harry/)

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> [Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlos-ruiz-zafon/do-you-know-what-religion-is-martin-my-friend-i-can-barely-remember/)

[Carlos Ruiz Zafon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlos-ruiz-zafon/)

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> [The superabundance is an ecological myth that we will never run out of resources, that the Earth, that Gaia, is in this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-o-sullivan/the-superabundance-is-an-ecological-myth-that-we-will-never-run-out/)

[Daniel O'Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-o-sullivan/)

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> [“Myth, in any culture, is the working out of present anxieties against a backdrop of a time (and sometimes place) removed from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-g-dupree/myth-in-any-culture-is-the-working-out-of-present-anxieties-against-a/)

M. G. DuPree

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> [Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-nighy/opening-a-play-is-just-tough-the-idea-that-actors-are-weirdly/)

[Bill Nighy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-nighy/)

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> [I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/i-always-have-difficulty-with-the-greek-tragic-plays-i-think-the/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

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> [There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aprilynne-pike/there-s-always-someone-who-secretly-believes-in-myths-and-legends-or/)

[Aprilynne Pike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aprilynne-pike/)

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> [A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/a-myth-is-a-way-of-making-sense-in-a-senseless-world-myths-are-2/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

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> [Why does it seem to be more and more challenging to find a perfect mate or maintain a happy and compatible relationship?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pamala-oslie/why-does-it-seem-to-be-more-and-more-challenging-to-find-a-perfect/)

Pamala Oslie

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> [ “\[Northrop\] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/northrop-frye-was-concerned-mostly-with-literary-criticism-and-myths/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/the-most-loathsome-materialism-is-not-the-kind-people-usually-think/)

[Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/)

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> [ Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to \[Buckminster Fuller\] and found that much of it… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/just-getting-totally-absorbed-in-that-and-therefore-when-i-came-back/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

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> [The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/the-idea-that-we-live-in-a-post-modern-culture-is-a-myth-in-fact-a/)

[William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/)

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> [In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-french/in-the-myth-of-sisyphus-his-most-important-non-fiction-work-albert/)

[Philip French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-french/)

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> [Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/myth-was-regarded-as-primary-it-was-concerned-with-what-was-thought/)

[Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/)

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> [“This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lavie-tidhar/this-is-the-time-of-myths-they-are-woven-into-the-present-like-silk/)

[Lavie Tidhar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lavie-tidhar/)

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> [ If we \[Americans\] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-stone/if-we-americans-are-a-strong-people-a-united-people-why-do-we-always/)

[Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-stone/)

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> [If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/if-it-is-written-and-read-with-serious-attention-a-novel-like-a-myth/)

[Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/)

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> [One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-raban/one-of-the-oddest-features-of-western-christianized-culture-is-its/)

[Jonathan Raban](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-raban/)

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> [Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/myths-are-stories-for-our-search-through-the-ages-for-truth-for/)

[Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/)

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## Top authors on Myth

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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-northrop-frye-72036.jpg) Northrop Frye 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/myth/northrop-frye/)
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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-dawkins-78503.jpg) Richard Dawkins 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/myth/richard-dawkins/)
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                        "text": "You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necessary with no regard to the damage it may do. I would be careful if I were you. Friends and objects of deities’ desires dropped like flies. In the end the gods always ended up miserable and alone.\" — Kate Daniels",
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                        "text": "We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon the line of history; it does not drift upon the winds of story, or float upon the shrouds of myth. We are still explorers and discoverers, seeking meaning through movement and examination. But we are coming to a time of listening. Our sweat and breath are now upon this land. Voices rise up, and we begin to hear the echoes in the stones.",
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                        "text": "Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.",
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                        "text": "There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself…The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings.",
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                        "text": "Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.",
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                        "text": "“-’Tell me’, he said, ‘who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one’? -’A happy one, of course.’ -’Wrong. A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy yo a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred’. -’But surely, I said, you have to reward him eventually. Otherwise he will stop offering’. -’Oh, you would be surprised how long he will go on. But yes, in the end, it’s best to give him something. Then he will be happy again. And you can start over.”",
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                        "text": "There's a reason why trainspotters are not girls, there's a reason why there's the myth of the slightly autistic male genius, there's a reason why Gertrude Stein believed that her self-presentation was male. One could argue that was Susan Sontag also. The things that we associate with femaleness are not the single-minded, exclusive pursuit of a vocation, whether it be art or anything else. It is not a model that is widespread in our culture, it's not something we think of for women.",
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                        "text": "Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.",
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                        "text": "Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs.",
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                        "text": "Essentially, not only do we believe in this myth of 'de-risking', but it has become the one overriding goal; de-risking above growth, de-risking above innovation, de-risking above everything else. And we've reached the point where the Fed is using $70 Billion a month to 'de-risk' a largely insolvent banking system. And this can only end badly. The idea that you can do capitalism without risk is ridiculous on its face.",
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                        "text": "If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks the god Jehovah will bail him out serve in public office is like letting a man who believes in Santa Claus run a Toys 'R Us. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.",
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                        "text": "People believe that if a hijra curses you, bad things will happen. That God Ram blessed hijras with this power, that our blessings and curses will come true. People give us money because they are scared of our curse. Now that's the only way hijras can survive - by saying, \"Give me money, otherwise I'll curse you.\" That clap, which scares people, has become our identity. In a way, you use myths and misconceptions for your own survival.",
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                        "text": "When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust.",
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                        "text": "“We have seen that there are two misconceptions involved in the myth that memory is a thing. One is that memory is a thing (a tangible structure rather than an abstract process) and the other is that memory is a thing (one memory rather than many memories).”",
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                        "text": "All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.",
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                        "text": "I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth. But, one of them was that he doesn't rehearse and another was that he doesn't really direct, if he doesn't like it...he cuts it out of the movie, or even replaces you.",
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                        "text": "We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.",
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                        "text": "I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creat­ing life. Or some kind of energy or anti­gravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.",
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                        "text": "Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'",
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                        "text": "I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.",
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                        "text": "If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.",
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