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Myths which are believed in tend to become true. - George Orwell

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. – George Orwell

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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. – George Orwell

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There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. – Eugene Ionesco

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

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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes

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The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels. – Mikhail Strabo

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