Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION:  myth

Quoted In The Grove:

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
~Joseph Campbell

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
~Annie Besant

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.
~Gerald Hausman

EndQuote:
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
~Stanley Kunitz

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Exercise Prompt for the Ides, in 3 weeks:  chaos

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From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
~Janet Frame

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We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
~Carl Jung

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
~James Lapine

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
~Irwin Edman

History shows us that the songs — the myth, the experience and the emotion — live longer the less you explain.
~Sondre Lerche

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth than can be stated in words.
~Ananda Coomaraswamy

I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance… a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.
~Jay Parini

Myth is a past with a future, exercising itself in the present.
~Carlos Fuentes

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
~Joseph Campbell

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All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
~John Boorman

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
~Joan D Vinge

The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.
~Swami Vivekananda

In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths…
~Ashwin Sanghi

Myth is sometimes more important than history.
~Adrian Dunbar

Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends — they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries.
~John J Geddes

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
~Joan D Vinge

Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
~Sam Shepard

When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.
~Ashwin Sanghi

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Posted From The Grove

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
~Alfred Rosenberg

The myth of redemptive violence – Caesar, peace, and victory – is in people’s bones so deeply, we aren’t even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that’s how we bring peace.
~Rob Bell

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
~Stanley Crouch

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
~John F Kennedy

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
~Jimmy Carter

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Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.
~James Bovard

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
~Hunter S Thompson

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There’s this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they’re not going to vote on it.
~Zephyr Teachout

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
~Boris Pasternak

This idea that you can’t be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don’t stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It’s possible to do this job with honor and dignity.
~Matt Taibbi

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can’t have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.
~Jeff Goodell

Myth and nature are the two great garments of the world, with nature being the living green garment that covers the planet and myth being the multidimensional, many colored fabric that continually weaves human culture.
~Michael Meade

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I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
~Thom Yorke

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn’t count. I’m trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.
~Jada Pinkett Smith

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I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I’m going to buy a Suburban next time.
~Jerry Falwell

It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name of Christianity and Capitalism.
~Tom Tancredo

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I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you’re supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it’s not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.
~Sebastian Junger

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the court’s own legitimacy and authority.
~Noah Feldman

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Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational — not always who we are, but always who we want to be. We see ourselves as good…
~Richard Cohen

If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called ‘pure evil’ because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable.
~Steven Pinker

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There’s an ideology that’s taken hold of universities, that has taken hold of elite establishments, that is committed to the myth of endemic white racism.
~Heather Mac Donald

In the ‘era of colorblindness,’ there’s a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have ‘moved beyond’ race.
~Michelle Alexander

The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks… we’re not asking you to invent new laws for us. We’re asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books.
~Jesse Williams

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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
~Bertrand Russell

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men’s minds without their being aware of the fact.
~Claude Lévi-Strauss

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You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.
~Deepak Chopra

The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
~John C Maxwell

I think the biggest myth entrepreneurs have is that the growth and performance of their startups depends more on their entrepreneurial talent than on the businesses they choose.
~Scott Shane

The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled — the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth — flies in the face of reality.
~Andrew Yang

Don’t buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
~James Altucher

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
~Warren G Bennis

Selling out is a myth. Bill Gates isn’t selling out, is he? Richard Branson isn’t selling out. Why can’t black people make money?
~Ashley Walters

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The market fundamentalist ideology that dominates much of the west has attempted to indoctrinate us with a simple myth: that we all rise or fall according to our individual efforts alone; that billionaires amass vast amounts of wealth because they are entrepreneurial, plucky, go-getting geniuses.
~Owen Jones

The myth of the peachfuzz billionaire has emerged. This new Horatio Alger typically launches his first start-up in middle school, and somewhere between the campus computer-science lab and a move to Palo Alto hacks up a Web site where users provide fun or useful content.
~Steven Levy

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
~Oscar Isaac

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The ‘free market’ is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a myth, a great deception.
~Owen Jones

Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.
~Ha-Joon Chang

Whatever we want to think about American business — work hard, tell the truth, have morality — it’s a myth. There’s a lot of graft.
~Mark Ruffalo

It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.
~Ha-Joon Chang

It is a well known urban myth that the French don’t trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It’s not that they are tight with money — they just don’t trust anyone.
~Janine di Giovanni

The reason it was so bruising when someone said I was from a rich family is that, like many of us, I’m deeply invested — probably overly so — in the myth of my own self-creation. I like to believe that I got where I am, such as it is, by working hard and charting my own course.
~Meghan Daum

I think the idea of a ‘perfect job’ is a myth — there are pros and cons of every position, good days and bad days, and even what most people would consider dream jobs come with their share of downsides.
~Kathryn Minshew

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~Alicia Arkin: I am Legend (5:53) acrobatic dance
https://vimeo.com/589188613

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~Christine Yuan: Louis XIII – N°XIII (1:00J) Your chances of…
https://vimeo.com/596180825

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~BBC Earth: Nature Makes You Happy (2:22) CNNs 5 Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wkPMUZ9vX4

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America gave the world the notion of the melting pot – an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America’s collective imagination.
~Ivan Krastev

The reality of Britain is vibrant multiculturalism, but the myth we export is an all-white world of lords and ladies. Conversely, American society is pretty segregated, but the myth it exports is of a racial melting-pot, everyone solving crimes and fighting aliens side by side.
~Riz Ahmed

The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that fascinated and horrified the Biblical writers, people of different races and languages, drawn together in pursuit of wealth, tried for the first time to live together — and failed.
~Neil MacGregor

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.
~Jess Walter

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I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.
~Philipp Meyer

While the government underwrote the West more than any other region, the myth claimed that hardworking Western cowboys and settlers wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone to work out their own destiny.
~Heather Cox Richardson

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
~Paul Ricoeur

The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction’s attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest.
~Richard K Morgan

When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.
~Philipp Meyer

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it’s a joke, a blot on American history.
~Frank Waters

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.
~Chief Seattle

No, I don’t think about the myth of the West. It’s not the kind of thinking I do. That’s more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.
~Tommy Lee Jones

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
~Sarah Zettel

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…history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.
~Joseph Campbell

History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
~E L Doctorow

Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.
~Fred Kaplan

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It’s just not true.
~Michelle Alexander

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that’s what gets my adrenaline going.
~Ashwin Sanghi

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Artists don’t make objects. Artists make mythologies.
~Anish Kapoor

Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.
~Albert Camus

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
~Cyril Connolly

You want to make money, remake ‘Cinderella.’ You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.
~Mike Nichols

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I think we’ve debunked the myth of talent. It doesn’t appear that there’s anything like a music gene or center in the brain that Stevie Wonder has that nobody else has.
~Daniel Levitin

I subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?
~David Byrne

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It struck me that what I’d heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn’t a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
~Michael Bergin

I walk the streets, take the train, it’s real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: ‘Oh, I’m so famous I can’t go places, because I created this mythology that I’m so famous I can’t go places.’
~Samuel L Jackson

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It’s a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
~Cate Blanchett

There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on magazine covers so often that we think we know them intimately, and we want to learn more. I like to burst that bubble a little.
~Alison Jackson

The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.
~Hozier

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When I read about myself in the media, even I don’t recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.
~Kevin Mitnick

Obviously I have propagated the occasional myth about myself, because the real me, I’m not worth knowing.
~Keith Allen

The story of trying to live up to the myth is more interesting than the myth itself.
~Alexi Zentner

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It’s important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
~Henry Louis Gates

Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it’s hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.
~Joe R Lansdale

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it’s a place where people go to find something – to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.
~Colin Hay

Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth.
~Tim Cahill

There’s an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed into a woman. And that’s how humans reproduced. And I thought, ‘How could I really understand that?’
~William T Vollmann

It’s a myth that generally Asians are mostly vegetarians. The Japanese are the kings of red meat, but it’s expensive. The Chinese and Vietnamese love their pork. Many Indians, especially the Muslims, can’t live without their lamb.
~Wolfgang Puck

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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
~Jean Cocteau

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
~Brad Holland

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
~David Herbert Lawrence

That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle — beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.
~Sylvia Plath

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~mouthcradle: “Moonlight Sonata” by Ludwig Van Beethoven (5:49) the near-solitude of near-silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qm-OLddQI8&t=71s

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~Omeleto: Fog (14:58) the slow unveiling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6-IgktiRuQ

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~Dust: Blackbird (16:03) love, a second chance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfCSEIhJ5J8&t=117s

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The Orpheus myth is my favorite myth, and the prodigal son is my favorite parable.
~Peter Hedges

If I have to pick one story that most influenced ‘The Hunger Games,’ it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them.
~Suzanne Collins

To me, superhero movies are like Greek myth.
~Patty Jenkins

Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding ‘In the beginning’ in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.
~Neil MacGregor

In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon — in humans, chimeras are one person who contains two sets of DNA. That’s right. One person comes up in tests as two different people.
~Susannah Cahalan

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For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.
~Jacques Audiard

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
~Tom Hooper

The myth that theater isn’t for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.
~Theresa Rebeck

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
~Margaret Atwood

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Part of the mystique of shows like ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ is the idea that they begin with a couple of plot lines, and then a bunch of geniuses improvise dialogue. It’s not quite that unstructured and loose. It makes for a good urban myth, but everything’s a little more tightly scripted and programmed than that.
~Alan Thicke

I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen’s directing — directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth, but one of them was that he doesn’t rehearse, and another was that he doesn’t really direct. If he doesn’t like it… he cuts it out of the movie or even replaces you. And he doesn’t talk to you.
~Colin Firth

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In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
~Audre Lorde

Ayone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression — a myth — and more in common with the disease known as cancer — a harsh reality.
~Steven Weber

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.
~Minoru Yamasaki

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
~Diana Wynne Jones

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of the rat race is not yet final.
~Hunter S Thompson

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§ MUSIC:

I don’t think there is anyone I’ve ever met who has been more passionate about music than me, but rock ‘n’ roll has never been about just music. It is music, attitude, personality, persona, myth, legend.
~Terence Trent D’Arby

Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’
~Paul McCartney

I think it’s a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn’t work like that.
~Alison Goldfrapp

I did not break up the Beatles. You can’t have it both ways. If you’re going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.
~Yoko Ono

Over thirty-plus years, a certain myth has grown up around the band. And the last thing I ever wanted to do was put us on a stage somewhere, in less than the best circumstances, and pop the bubble, have the fans come in and say, ‘Gee, they weren’t that good.’ It’s your responsibility to give them something to be excited about.
~Eric Carmen

I think the rock’n’roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
~Robert Smith

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.
~Sean Lennon

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‘Friend Monkey’ is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite – the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
~P L Travers

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.
~Conor Oberst

My grandmother. She’s someone I never met, and I would’ve loved to have met her. She’s been a huge influence on our entire family, not just me. She is a mystery. It’s not clear exactly what about her is truth and myth.
~Amy Tan

I’ve always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there’s a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
~B D Wong

People come up and say, ‘Thank you’ for showing a black family loving their masculine-presenting child and for undoing the myth of black people as being rabidly homophobic.
~Yance Ford

The video for ‘Whatever’ is kind of a documentary in a way. It’s showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There’s an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It’s not true.
~Jill Scott

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
~Helen Fisher

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The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
~V S Pritchett

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.
~Annalee Newitz

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That’s not a myth.
~Smokey Robinson

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~AGT: Nightbirde • It’s OK (7:32) sparrow turned nightingale passed on to sing elsewhere, 02/19/22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZJvBfoHDk0

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~Beach House: Myth (4:13) the story • tears; the myth • love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXtjEMx-5jg

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~Coldplay: Higher Power (4:16) achieving glitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lfnR7OhZY8

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~MC YOGI: Heaven Is Here (4:15) when the mind is clear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfqkbyJSuf0

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~Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata on One Guitar • Marcin (5:35) showy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gQ7m0c4ReI

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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

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
~Linda Evans

I don’t desire happiness. I think it’s a myth … and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to
~Beau Willimon

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
~Lauren Groff

This whole thing about a woman staying alone and being happy is just a myth. Everyone needs someone in their lives.
~Neena Gupta

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
~Diane Keaton

It is a myth that married women do not get work. Those days are gone now. So, if you think I hid my marriage for that reason, it’s not true.
~Roop Durgapal

Whatever else it was about, the feminist movement had no interest in exploding the myth of the mysterious and wonderful world of business; it simply wanted in on it.
~Orson Bean

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There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.
~Sabine Baring-Gould

‘Believe women’ only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England.
~Bari Weiss

Sorry, equality is a myth. Women aren’t as strong as men — they can’t even hold their booze as well as men.
~Gavin McInnes

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Imagine how many women could excel in science if not for the pernicious myth that science and math are a man’s game. Likewise, fitness isn’t defined by the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the world.
~Kyle Hill

I saw myself as a trailblazer in the 1980s as a female lawyer in the City. It was exciting, as women were outnumbered by men five to one. But while I had this sense of trailblazing, in reality, I wasn’t pushing boundaries; it was just a personal myth I’d created, as I was doing a job I wasn’t enjoying.
~Michelle Paver

Sex and The City’ was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham – but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.
~Michael Patrick King

Contrary to myth, ‘The Feminine Mystique’ and feminism did not represent the beginning of the decline of the stay-at-home mother but a turning point that led to much stronger legal rights and ‘working conditions’ for her.
~Stephanie Coontz

“The Myth of Male Power” dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
~Warren Farrell

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I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the ’90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it’s real. I’m glad I woke up before my body was just like ‘uh-uh.’
~Lili Taylor

So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it’s rose-tinted and they don’t tell the truth!
~Sophie Dahl

Juggling is the word. I’m a bad juggler, and there are often balls dropped. There is no balance. The idea of work/life balance is a myth. There’s teetering from one end and running to the other and hoping not to fall off.
~Sonya Walger

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don’t think you can.
~Jessica Lange

It’s a myth that you can have it all. You can’t, but more importantly, I don’t think you should want to. It sounds exhausting!
~Isla Fisher

The myth is that women and their families don’t have to make trade-offs to have an ‘extreme career’; they absolutely do. How you prioritize your life and career is your choice. Once you make a decision, stick to it; don’t always second-guess yourself.
~Angela Braly

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Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.
~Phyllis Schlafly

I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.
~Anne Fortier

The denial of female aggression is a destructive myth. It robs an entire gender of a significant spectrum of power, leaving women less than equal with men and effectively keeping them ‘in their place’ and under control.
~Katherine Dunn

In 1861, Bachofen published his radical thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started out under the rule of womankind and only switched to patriarchy at the dawn of civilization.
~Amanda Foreman

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I don’t believe two actresses can be best friends. It’s an absolute myth.
~Sameera Reddy

There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
~Mitski

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The biggest beauty myth is that everyone looks better without makeup. That’s not true. Makeup is important.
~Aerin Lauder

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.
~Carre Otis

Successful model? That’s a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.
~Jessica Lange

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 personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
~Naomi Wolf

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Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.
~Camille Paglia

I resent it when they write the part of a woman who’s just a sexy femme fatale who seduces people to get her way, perpetrating the myth that that’s how women have to operate, instead of using their brains or their wit.
~Teri Garr

I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline a new way for us to think about young women as moral actors, one that doesn’t include their bodies.
~Jessica Valenti

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
~Thomas Bulfinch

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west’s stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art’s assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
~Camille Paglia

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Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I’m still doing.
~Elaine Stritch

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I’m some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women — my mother and her mother and my aunts — and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.
~Moby

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
~Robert Fulghum

We’re so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there’s something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you’re going to die because I think you carry yourself differently.
~Steve Earle

If you’re going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you’d better die young.
~Alma Guillermoprieto

The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.
~Colson Whitehead

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There is a myth that those who do humanitarian work have a saviour mentality, but the relationship is reciprocal.
~Meghan Markle

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
~Stephen Bayley

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
~Arthur M Schlesinger

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.
~Julian Baggini

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
~Dennis Potter

The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.
~Alexandra Fuller

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
~Northrop Frye

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
~Dustin Hoffman

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, ‘They’re like sneakers.’ No, they’re like heels is what they’re like. That’s like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It’s not.
~Anna Kendrick

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
~Orlando Bloom

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
~Devdutt Pattanaik

I don’t think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws — against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.
~Bill Keller

You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
~Janis Joplin

I am not a myth.
~Marlene Dietrich

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
~Sarah Zettel

Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.
~Terry Tempest Williams

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@Writers Platform

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.
~Joseph Campbell

The poem is a little myth of man’s capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see — it is, rather, a light by which we may see — and what we see is life.
~Robert Penn Warren

All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.
~Margaret Atwood

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
~George Murray

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world.
~J R R Tolkien

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
~Paul Di Filippo

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
~Ursula K Le Guin

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
~Henry David Thoreau

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I’ve been trying to turn it back into myth again.
~Ross MacDonald

There can’t be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don’t change they just die.
~Maxine Hong Kingston

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
~Italo Calvino

…as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods, and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition, the writer enters into a structure of traditional stories and images.
~Northrop Frye

Philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
~Willard Van Orman Quine

I dislike Allegory — the conscious and intentional allegory — yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
~J R R Tolkien

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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
~Marilynne Robinson

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
~Umberto Eco

The myth that ‘old’ guys can’t write anything fresh is just a myth. ~Steve Lukather

The only thing that’s really important is the stuff he wrote. That’s what he cared about, and that’s what’s worth protecting. The myth and the man time eventually separates. But the work endures.
~Jack Hemingway

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
~Michael Shermer

The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
~Dan Brown

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing — all those archetypes are there to play with.
~John Boorman

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, ‘As Good As It Gets’ — it just doesn’t work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience.
~Patrick Rothfuss

There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don’t get to choose your story any more than you get to choose your children. You can make the decision to write, but beyond that, at the end of the day, it’s going to come out how it’s going to come out.
~Alexandra Fuller

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Prewritten Prompt: myth

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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
~William Robertson Smith

The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.
~Richard Whately

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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
~Frank Herbert

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
~George Santayana

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
~Paul Rieoeur

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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
~James Feibleman

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop, the myth is known to all.
~Rick Santelli

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of certain intellectual supremacy—the mass never frees itself.
~Carl Jung

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
~Richard Dawkins

The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is, What do these stories mean?
~Reza Aslan

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What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was.
~Elaine Pagels

Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.
~Jesmyn Ward

If you take a cold, blunt view of most religions, and you sort of say, ‘Well, here’s the basis for it,’ most of them sound crazy. It’s the belief that makes them real. I was interested in that question: When does a belief become a myth? When does something you believe in become just a story?
~Alexi Zentner

I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has — which is a serious problem — is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can’t act a myth.
~Derek Walcott

There’s an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed into a woman. And that’s how humans reproduced. And I thought, ‘How could I really understand that?’
~William T Vollmann

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
~Tori Amos

Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, too.
~Kate Bernheimer

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
~Ken Wilber

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I didn’t learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems — dreams, myth, history…
~Carolyn Kizer

Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
~Bel Kaufman

Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.
~Vernon Howard

The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it’s the reverse.
~Rodney Stark

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
~Karen Armstrong

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn’t fit the findings of science.
~Clyde Tombaugh

Today, we’re still loaded down — and, to some extent, embarrassed — by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.
~Carl Sagan

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More than other subjects, there’s a myth that you have to be an absolute genius to be good at maths and to enjoy it, so I think it’s less accessible for people. Even the word ‘maths’ makes people screw their face up. They do the maths face.
~Rachel Riley

There’s this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard.
~Heidi Hammel

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an ‘ah-ha!’ moment is a myth.
~James Dyson

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
~Karl Popper

The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses — some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?
~Dwight Schultz

The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted. ~Louis de Broglie

Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.
~Claude Vorilhon

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.
~Karen Armstrong

I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth, religion, and rituals.
~Kamal Haasan

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

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§ The Exercise:

Question #22

Janus, Justice and Hermaphroditus
One, the doorway sees both sides
The Blind uncovers those who hide
Another combined loves both rides
Depicting who but all and just us

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5s & 7s

i apologize
who failed to mythicize you
to mystify you
like prose without poetry
neglect to dignify you

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the myth of lyrics
divorced pairings of a song
the myth of music
released to start new careers
poetry and symphony

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stale, staid music strayed
Beethoven genius confirmed
Moonlight Sonata
myth’s colossal handicap
deaf to music not his own

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puzzle’s missing piece
dire need of course correction
search for mything piece

rhapsodic with praise
wise, brazen imperfections
‘s why I’m mything you

pointless existence
vagabond, slug, ne’er-do-well
myth you? not at all

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mythic, towering
thundering idiocy
fooled ’round, fell in love

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all-in-your-mind myth
spiders beneath the floorboards
arachnophobe’s wail

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we’re going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years – the last 50 years really – has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
~J Michael Straczynski

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell’s notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we’re close to that.
~Robert Redford

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There’s this myth that there’s no loyalty in football. Well, there’s tremendous loyalty and emotion and respect that go into the coaches and players you’ve gone into battle with. But as an owner, you have to make the decisions that are the right ones for the organization, that are the right ones that will help you win.
~Jim Irsay

Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country’s pastoral myth.
~David Grann

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Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
~Brene Brown

We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that’s wrong.
~James Comey

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
~Ansel Adams

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It’s another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.
~Deborah Bull

The megapixel war in conventional cameras has been a total myth. It’s taking us all in the wrong direction. Once a picture goes online, you’re throwing away 95 to 98 percent of those pixels.
~Ren Ng

It’s a bit of a myth that too much cholesterol causes heart attacks.
~Steven Gundry

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As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
~James Hillman

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
~Baz Luhrmann

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Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.
~Zsuzsanna Budapest

To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in common sense, it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.
~Henry David Thoreau

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Myths have a very long memory.
~Bryan Sykes

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
~George Orwell

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