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The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

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

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

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.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

There is a whole myth about super people. That super people can do everything and they do it on their own.

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.

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.

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

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

We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

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

We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.

We're separated by our myths.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

[a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for us. [a symbol] also unlocks dimensions and elements of our soul which correspond to the dimensions and elements of reality. A great play gives us not only a new vision of the human scene, but it opens up hidden depths of our own being.

Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block.

A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source.

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

A nation lives by its myths and heroes. Many societies have survived defeat and invasion, even political and economic collapse. None has survived the corruption of its picture of itself. High and popular art are not in competition here. Both may help citizens decide what they are and what they admire. In our age, however, high art has given up speaking to the body of its fellow citizens. It devotes itself to technical displays that can appeal only to other technicians.

Alfvén dismissed in his address religion as a 'myth'...

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

Alte Männer sind eine rachsüchtige Brut. Sie beneiden junge Männer um ihre Kraft und verübeln jungen Frauen ihre Verführungsmacht.