Myth Quotes
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History is a myth that men agree to believe.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.
Earle Birney
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The unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
Erica Jong
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The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.
Nancy Etcoff
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A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.
Ernest Gaines
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The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man.
Nikki Grimes
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Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.
Charles Burnett
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By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.
Michael Moorcock
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I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.
Dan Mangan
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Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.
Arnold Aronson
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There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
Eugene Kennedy
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Out of necessity, one needs to occasionally consume, but I'm a little concerned that there's a little bit of a myth arising that we can buy our way to a sustainable future, and I don't think that's the case.
Chip Giller
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It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.
Michael Eric Dyson
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What makes Batman and what makes other superheroes work is the myth that when life is at its lowest, and when you need a hero, a hero swings down and helps you.
Paul Dini
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Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.
Thomas Sowell
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Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.
Eric Chaisson
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Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.
Henry Louis Gates
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Now we pursue a myth of an ideal form, thinness at all costs.
Ornella Muti
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The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.
David Rosenfelt
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The more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.
Molly Ivins
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The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.
Nancy Etcoff
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Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec