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337 Myths quotes by 259 unique authors

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. — Greil Marcus
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it… — Hilary Mantel
I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths. — Dominic Monaghan
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. — Andrew O'Hagan
I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying… — Yoko Ono
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. — George Orwell
My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She… — Rick Riordan
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have… — Rick Riordan
Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers… — Ginger Rogers
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. — Bertrand Russell
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort… — Karl Rove
There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but… — Jill Scott
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. — Michael Shermer
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression. — Barbra Streisand
I am attracted to myths. — Tina Turner
All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant… — Gabrielle Union
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it,… — Alan Watts
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities. — Robert Anton Wilson
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her… — Naomi Wolf
I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age. — Tom Wolfe
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story -… — Douglas Rushkoff
Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths. — Ashwin Sanghi
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the… — Bertrand Russell
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz

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