Quotes About Myth

Many of our ideas of what love is comes from stories... these are extremely powerful shapers of our attitudes towards love, and I think that, in some ways, often we've got the wrong story.

When the ravens leave the Tower, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens.

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

The menstruation taboo is ancient, and there are so many theories about it. For some, it is fear of blood, and for some, period blood is toxic. If you read the theories about menstruation, you might even laugh.

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.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

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

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

I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.

Also characteristic is the spareness of the punctuation (except for parentheses), the controlled patterning of the lines and section breaks. Thematically, Atwood here explores many of the concerns that have continued to intrigue her: the traps of reality, myth, language, and the pernicious roles we play, the cage of the self, and above all, the nature of human perception.

Superstitions are born from success stories, allow them to motivate...

Capitalismul trebuie s? justifice ?i s? mitizeze contradic?iile încastrate în rela?iile sale sociale: promisiunea libert??ii fa?? de realitatea coerci?iei la scar? larg? ?i promisiunea prosperit??ii fa?? de realitatea s?r?ciei la scar? larg?.

In a way, like Scheherazade to King Shahryar, I told stories to death so that it would spare my life and my images, stories that seemed to never end.

My mother turned out to be a Biblical Myth; from that part of the Old Testament where God gets really angry.

I am a nobody. ... Treat me as a solar myth, or an echo, or an irrational quantity, or ignore me altogether.