#myths

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#myths #myth

Was [Sisyphus] from your province? 'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.' 'Then why tell his story?' I don't understand, and for a second I feel betrayed. Why did Ky tell me about this person and make me feel empathy for him when there's no proof that he ever lived at all? Ky pauses for a moment before he answers, ...'Even if he didn't live his story, enough of us have lived lives just like it. So it's true anyway. ↗

— Ally Condie

#myths #real #sisyphus #stories #truth

One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates. ↗

— Kit Bond

#administration #arab #company #deal #emirates

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dreams #grow #grow up #like #myths

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#acknowledged #actual #congress #disability #disease

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked! ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#cancer #five #gets #immune #meant

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#before #begun #did #enough #folk

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#comet #created #drought #every #explain

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#context #cultural #distinctly #ethnic #gender

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. ↗

— Alan Watts

#common sense #confronting #culture #feel #identical