Quote by Irwin Edman
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rathe

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. – Irwin Edman

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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – Salman Rushdie

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. – Greil Marcus

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. – Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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