Myth Quotes - Page 6

Now is the time to become a myth.

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

Music is our myth of the inner life.

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.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.

True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.

I am attracted to myths.

Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.