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> [Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-sionil-jos/literature-eastern-and-western-abounds-with-stories-myths-legends/)

[F. Sionil Jose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-sionil-jos/)

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> [ \[M\]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/m-yths-are-not-invented-as-stories-are-myths-are-inspired-they-really/)

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

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> [“Long dismissed as children's stories or 'myths' by Westerners, Australian Aboriginal stories have only recently begun to be taken seriously for what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-erik-sveiby/long-dismissed-as-children-s-stories-or-myths-by-westerners/)

[Karl-Erik Sveiby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-erik-sveiby/)

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> [“All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/all-myths-are-stories-but-not-all-stories-are-myths-among-stories/)

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

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> [And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erin-morgenstern/and-then-he-tells-her-stories-myths-he-learned-from-his-instructor/)

[Erin Morgenstern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erin-morgenstern/)

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> [I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-quinn/i-think-that-obviously-humans-find-it-very-difficult-to-believe-that/)

[Sally Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-quinn/)

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