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[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending,… — Don DeLillo
Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue. — Tom Robbins
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced… — Germaine Greer
Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is… — Saul Alinsky
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — J. G. Ballard
There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the… — Alan Moore
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that… — Jorge Luis Borges
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the… — Michael Shermer
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action.… — Joseph Campbell
An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely,… — Jeremy Narby
I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call. — Roger Zelazny
Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die. — Rick Riordan
Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word... — Marcus Tullius Cicero
And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time. — Rick Riordan
Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."… — Rick Riordan
I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making… — Madeleine L'Engle
Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for… — Roger Lowenstein
..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton — Edith Hamilton
I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. — Rick Riordan
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology.… — Joseph Campbell
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased… — Stephen Jay Gould
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man… — Daniel Quinn
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. — Jean Cocteau
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but… — Winona LaDuke

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