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There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.

—Alfred Henry Sturtevant

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If I can get them to read, they do. I tell them: Stories are important.” And then he looked at me and smiled.

—Charles de Lint

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Fairy tales, fantasy, legend and myth…these stories, and their topics, and the symbolism and interpretation of those topics…these things have always held an inexplicable fascination for me,” she writes. “That fascination is at least in...

—Helen Pilinovsky

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The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth, while others lose theirs due to trauma. As adults, we often look down...

—J.D. Stroube

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He carried her until he reached one of the hot springs around what became Chapin, and then he walked into the water with her and held her there for three days. He had about given...

—Laura Anderson

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All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.

—Margaret Atwood

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There are brains so smart in finance and unconsciously reject wealth.

—Toba Beta

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All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have a great interest in classical mythology and I need to make a sphinx or satyr every once in awhile to satisfy those interests. (…)

—Wendy Froud

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There’s this myth about the Federal Poverty Level, and that is such an antiquated measure of need. I think what’s missed here are the working poor . . . these are good hardworking folks who...

—Bob Evans

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The gods have become our diseases.

—C.G. Jung

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The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man’s interpretation of his life and struggles.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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The three sons of Bor had no liking for Ymir… At last they attacked Ymir and killed him. His wounds were like springs; so much blood streamed from them and so fast, that the flood...

—Kevin Crossley-Holland

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Rest you here, enchanter, while the light fades,Vision narrows, and the farSky-edge is gone with the sun.Be content with the small sparkOf the coal, the smellOf food, and the breathOf frost beyond the shut door....

—Mary Stewart

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One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the North American plains to European forests to Polynesian atolls. The imagery...

—Joseph Campbell

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There is at least one truth to every myth.

—Suzy Kassem

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In the mid–path of my life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood,’ writes Dante, in The Divine Comedy, beginning a quest that will lead to transformation and redemption. A journey through the...

—Terri Windling

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Don’t touch any of my weapons without my permission.””Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay,” Clary muttered.”Selling them on what?”Clary smiled blandly at him. “A mythical place of great magical power.

—Cassandra Clare

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What are you? From where did you come? I have never seen anything like you.” The Creator Raven looked at Man and was … surprised to find that this strange new being was so much...

—Eskimo creation

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When we kissed, the skies had never appeared more heavenly, nor the seas a more brilliant shade of sapphire blue.

—Jennifer Silverwood

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I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a...

—David Attenborough

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One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising...

—John Michael Greer

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pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.

—Rob Brezsny

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Mythology didn’t cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology.

—Thomm Quackenbush

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Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of...

—Robert G.

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Those who do not know that this great myth became Fact when the Virgin conceived are, indeed, to be pitied. But Christians also need to be reminded – we may thank Corineus for reminding us...

—C.S. Lewis

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There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no...

—Charles de Lint

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I have not been nourished by English Literature. . . for the simple reason that I have never found much there in which to rest my heart (or heart and head together). I was brought...

—J.R.R. Tolkien

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Myth, mist, and mystery all add to the illusion of love. If you need me I’ll be by the fog machine wearing a tunic and writing an epic poem in Greek.

—Jarod Kintz

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You claim that the evidentiary miracle is present and available, namely, the Koran. You say: ‘Whoever denies it, let him produce a similar one.’ Indeed, we shall produce a thousand similar, from the works of...

—Muhammad ibn

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[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.

—Margaret Atwood

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Money talks, I record.

—Toba Beta

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Can you surf really well, then?”I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.”Jeez, Nico,” I said. “I’ve never really tried.”He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since...

—Rick Riordan

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I ate mythology & dreamt’- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)

—Yusef Komunyakaa

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It is perilous to live past the end of your myth

—Anne Carson

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Twelve mothers and twelve fathers were stacked into the long, thin house, each with four children, drawing the old cobalt-and-silver curtains down the center of rooms to make labyrinths of twelve dining rooms, twelve stting...

—Catherynne M.

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What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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It’s perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It’s something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to...

—Hugh Hefner

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Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

—Laurence Overmire

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Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects...

—Joseph Campbell

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I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never...

—Steve Erickson

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Rites–of–passage stories…were cherished in pre–literate societies not only for their entertainment value, but also as mythic tools to prepare young men and women for life’s ordeals. A wealth of such stories can be found marking...

—Terri Windling

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Where are your stories?” said the other.”I cannot tell them. My head is a cloud.

—Alan Garner

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A myth… is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is...

—Christopher Vogler

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In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the facts vivid, because the facts are familiar; and for fallen men it is...

—G.K. Chesterton

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The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

—Jo Nesbo

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This is the time of myths, Orphan. They are the cables that run under the floors and power the world, the conduits of unseen currents, the steam that powers the great engines of the earth.

—Lavie Tidhar

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And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva...

—John Adams

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It felt relaxing to be someone else’s myth.

—Thomm Quackenbush

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It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years...

—Robert G.

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