#myth

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

#end #end product #every #generation #history

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#big #con #dreary #dublin #dump

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. ↗

— Alan Watts

#make #myth #sense #terms #try

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#decline #even #i #literary #myths

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#failure #fiasco #mythic #proportions #simply

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#difference #disaster #failure #fiasco #mythic

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#birth #casting #demons #i #into

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#credible #deny #either #hebrews #hero

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#countries #ethic #good #latin #mythology

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply. ↗

— Leo Bogart

#apply #cannot #far #great #great idea