“ I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. ”
- Harold Bloom- Copy
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“ It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. ”
- Tom Brokaw- Copy
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“ Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory — the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. ”
- Greil Marcus- Copy
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“ 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 Levi Strauss- Copy
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“ Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels. ”
- Mikhail Strabo- Copy
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“ How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all people, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave… ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- Copy
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