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• Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's not a lot of realistic, observant writing about the West right now.

  Walter Kirn

  Writing, Tired, Views

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• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  Tea Obreht

  Thinking, Young, Ran

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• A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Religious, Art, Giving

  "Truth and Method". Book by Hans-Georg Gadamer (p. 76), 1960.

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• Every so often you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can’t let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer’s room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

  Eric Kripke

  Want, Rooms, Plot

  "Creator Eric Kripke Discusses The Essential Supernatural: On the Road with Sam and Dean Winchester". Interview with Amanda Dyar, www.dreadcentral.com. December 18, 2012.

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• There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London, so I think we've tapped into some of that. Maybe because of the way the press works or whatever, they have extremely knowledgeable music fans over there. People who will sit there and talk to you about some record that came out in 1967 out of Memphis that you've never heard before.

  Craig Finn

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel alive. They're also about betrayal.

  Emily Browning

  Sex, Pain, Betrayal

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• 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

  Technology, Enabling, World

  Karen Armstrong (2004). “A Short History Of Myth”, p.3, Canongate Books

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• Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

  Kenneth Anger

  Glowing, America, Generations

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• You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Religious, Law, Names

  "Years of Minutes" by Andy Rooney, (p. 339), 2004.

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• For the liver, what's so interesting is that there's no stem cell in the liver. So the normal liver actually can regenerate. It's one of the only organs in the human body that can do this, and we've known this since the time of Greek mythology.

  Sangeeta N. Bhatia

  Cells, Interesting, Greek

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hero, People, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.148, 谷月社

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• The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Character, Reason, Roman Gods

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.fandango.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me."

  Tom Cavanagh

  Book, People, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

  James Earl Jones

  Indulge In, Race, Events

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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• If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Other Cultures, Names, Stories

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• In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

  Umberto Eco

  Country, Latin, Successful

  1988 In the International Herald Tribune, 14 Dec.

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• All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

  Tennessee Williams

  God, Atheism, Theology

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, True Friend, Mind Your Own Business

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.67, Anchor

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• In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...

  Hyman Rickover

  Strong, Real, Long

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams again. Freud, too, believed that the psyche retained archaic vestiges, remnants of our earlier mental world. But for Freud these were a burden we were forced to repress. Jung instead would see them as a reservoir of vital energy, a source of meaning and power from which, through the over-development of our rational minds, modern mankind has become divorced.

  Gary Valentine

  Dream, Mind, World

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• Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Secular Society

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• Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature, then that myth has to be exorcised. In other words, we have to get out of people's heads the idea that without a market economy, without egotism, competition, rivalry and self-interest, without all the technological advances that [Karl] Marx imputed to capitalism, we have to eliminate the feeling that we would sink into some kind of barbarism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Ideas, Self

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.

  Werner Herzog

  Volcanoes, Monsters, Demon

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Culture, Stories, Belief

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• There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.

  Werner Herzog

  Unusual Things, Media, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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