Top Myth Quotes
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
Dennis Potter
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
Sarah Zettel
People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.
Milla Jovovich
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.
Joan D. Vinge
I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.
Jerry Rubin
John F. Kennedy 
Robert Anton Wilson 
Robert Fulghum 
Dustin Hoffman 
Friedrich Durrenmatt 
E. L. Doctorow All Myth Quotes
It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
Michael Bergin 
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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
Thomas Mann
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E. L. Doctorow
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
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One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.
Smokey Robinson
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren G. Bennis
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
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Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
Paul McCartney
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Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
Dustin Hoffman
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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