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Myth Quotes by Anne Carson
- To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
- Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In…
- All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence…
More Myth Quotes
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. — Margaret Atwood
- Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. — Ansel Adams
- The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people… — Warren G. Bennis
- A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — Annie Besant
- 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year… — Annie Besant
- Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting… — Lionel Blue
- If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. — Ray Bradbury
- I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't;… — Jo Brand
- Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow… — William J. Brennan
- You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right… — Jeff Bridges