I think touring in America lives up to the myth, in all ways of what touring is. So many pretty cities, and… — Erik Hassle Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth,… — D. M. Thomas Copy Share Image
Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be… — Lisa Anderson Copy Share Image
Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
How did you learn all this?" Vic sighed. "See, while you spend all your time making out with Balthazar, and Raquel stays… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind… Furthermore, no geological evidence… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
I think a lot of kids do dream in their own way, except 25, 30 years later legend happens because some of… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
“The function of ritual and myth is to make possible, and then to facilitate, the jump—by analogy. Forms and conceptions that the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
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