Myth Quote by Samuel R. Delany Download Open image “In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.” — Samuel R. Delany ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Myth Next Opposites Storytelling Turns Versions
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
“The twin enemies of mythology are logic and empirical data, the chief weapons of true science. If either weapon is neutralized, mythology is free… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths. — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
“If these out-of date beliefs are to be called myths, then myths can be produced by the same sorts of methods and held for… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“People probably do hear watches go tic-tok. But I’m sure my childhood clock went tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tic…Why” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“I wanted to get out, Vyme, to keep going and not be trapped, to be free.... only I was cruel. I had the chance… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“they were nice in a useless sort of way, which is, after all, the only way to be truly nice.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Neurotics, proceed with delusions of grandeur. Napoleon Bonaparte, take the lead. Jesus Christ, bring up the rear. Simulate severe depression. Non-communicative with repressed hostility.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.” — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the turn of… — Alvar Ellegård Copy Share Image
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. — Peter Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it - and if… — Jena Malone Copy Share Image
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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