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Myth Quotes
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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.(Quote by - Joan D. Vinge)
I drag my myth around with me. (Quote by - Orson Welles)
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.(Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. (Quote by - James Feibleman)
Plato wove historical fact into literary myth. (Quote by - Michael Shermer)
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.(Quote by - John C. Maxwell)
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting. (Quote by - Rudolf Bultmann)
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us. (Quote by - Dustin Hoffman)
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars. (Quote by - David Antin)
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)
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.(Quote by - Diana Wynne Jones)
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. (Quote by - John Boorman)