"Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream."
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"By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents"
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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."
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"The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity."
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"Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people."
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"myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth"
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"Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living."
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"I drag my myth around with me."
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"Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths"
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"So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom."
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"Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth."
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"writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed."
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"Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves."
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"All things fade and quickly turn to myth."
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"A myth is a lie that conveys a truth."
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"It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here."
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"Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth."
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"Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify."
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"Myth is the nothing that is all."
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"He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men."
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