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I have built my world through Native American mythology.

—Tori Amos

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Myths have a very long memory.

—Bryan Sykes

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IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE

—Charleston Parker

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Can you please tell me who you people are?””Criminals. Offenders. Monsters. We’ve all been imprisoned in Tartarus for discretions committed against the gods of Olympus.”~ Hope/Daedalus, The River Styx

—David Revilla

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I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is a genre that can tell an entertaining and enthralling story on the surface,...

—Dean F.

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I am death; I am this blood, these ravaged lands, and this wanton destruction. – Panchali Draupadi

—Krishna Udayasankar

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[Hades] returned his attention to the playlist while I eased the car back on the road. His fingers flipped deftly over the screen. ‘Orpheus…Dusk…Orpheus…Dusk…do you have anything on here that doesn’t make people want to...

—Kaitlin Bevis

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Oftentimes lies are found in those closest to you and truth in perfect strangers

—Katrina Sisowath

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In the aether I appear in fiery forms, And in the aer I sit in a silvery chariot; earth reigns in my black brood of puppies.

—Porphyry

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Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?

—Priya Ardis

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Swords can’t solve every problem.

—Rick Riordan

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Kafamda bu dusunceler gecip duruyordur, kalbim parcalanmisti, perisandi, cevremdeki insanlarla sevinmek istiyor, ama bunu yapamiyordum. Kendimi bir hain gibi hissediyordum, o buyuk hatayi ben yapmisim gibi, buna bizzat kendi, varligim ve kisiligimle ben neden olmusum...

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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I had to break up with Medusa. I just got sick of buying mice for her hair. I should have ended it sooner, but you try looking into those eyes.

—Alex Bosworth

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I dropped my dress to the floor and sat on the sofa with renewed determination. This man was going to have sex with me whether he liked it or not.

—Denise Grover

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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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So by the time the morning came, Odysseus and I were indeed friends, as Odysseus had promised we would be. Or let me put it another way: I myself had developed friendly feelings towards him...

—Margaret Atwood

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We are at war. There will be scars. – Uttara Vairati

—Krishna Udayasankar

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The voice blurs and fades, like a faint cry riding on the tails of the wind. I yawn and stretch, rolling over. I fold my pillow under my head and wait for the voice to...

—Lauren Hammond

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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

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We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries

—Thomas Paine

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That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. “It’s all right,” he said. “But I’d take out that stuff about Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. That’s about...

—Wallace Stegner

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Behold, my children!” she said. “The instrument of my revenge. I will call it a scythe!”The Titans muttered among themselves: What is that for? Why is it curved? How do you spell scythe?

—Rick Riordan

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But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn’t otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

—William Peter

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Anytime one tries to take fragments of one’s personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past. It must be dreamed again.

—Assotto Saint

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I didn’t study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

—Eric Bana

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Women! Whether human or divine, what man can ever truly understand them?

—Debra Holland

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You’re the girl that I have been wanting. You’re the girl that I could see myself with forever. And most importantly, you’re the girl that I’ve fallen in love with.

—M.S. Watson

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I happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit...

—Joanne Harris

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We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition, worry about the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, or try to see their lives...

—Karen Armstrong

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The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where every creature lives on the death of another. A realization of the inevitable guilt of life may so sicken the heart, that like Hamlet, or...

—Joseph Campbell

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You deserved it.

—Priya Ardis

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unsignificantlyoff the coastthere wasa splash quite unnoticedthis was Icarus drowning

—William Carlos

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There’s my baby!” I cried, quite carried away, “There’s my poochiekins!”…”Sadie,” My dad said firmly, “Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as ‘poochiekins’.

—Rick Riordan

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Then the woman in the bed sat up and looked about her with wild eyes; and the oldest of the old men said: ‘Lady, we have come to write down the names of the immortals,’...

—W.B. Yeats

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Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

—Bryan Sykes

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In life, you have 3 choices. Give up, give in, or give it your all.

—Charleston Parker

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My reading and studying and retellings of old stories didn’t do anything except help me think better. I was at least thoughtful. Too thoughtful, my friends said. And all I thought about was myths and...

—Francesca Lia

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The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of poetry and in the self-created world of dreams hopes to banish the dark...

—Ferdinand Cohn

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… the greatest mystery, the greatest wonder of creation is that we are capable of both relentless reason and boundless love … It is not about what we are, but what we can become.– Govinda...

—Krishna Udayasankar

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power of facing unpleasant facts.” True adulthood begins with doing just that, with renouncing comforting fables. There is something liberating in recognizing ourselves as mammals with some fourscore years (if we’re lucky) to make the...

—Jeffrey Tayler

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I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were.

—Neil Gaiman

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No mortal ear could have heard the kelpie passing through the night, for the great black hooves of it were as soundless in their stride as feathers falling.

—Mollie Hunter

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If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.

—Priya Ardis

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Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -Hestia

—Rick Riordan

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But the queen–too long she has suffered the pain of love,hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,consumed by the fire buried in her heart. […]His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and...

—Virgil

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Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe.

—Ashwin Sanghi

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So how did it go? I sat on the toilet and ran a hand over my hair. Um… it’s still going, I whispered.It’s still going? Then what are you doing calling me?Well… it’s just that…What?How...

—Denise Grover

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Love cannot live where there is no trust.

—Edith Hamilton

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Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

—Janet E.

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The Wheel of Time spins: there is beginning and there is end. But why does the Wheel of Time spin? Is it some divine force that propels it? Or is that force humanity, people in...

—Krishna Udayasankar

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