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Quote by Salman Rushdie
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the fa

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

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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. – Salman Rushdie

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Fear
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. – Salman Rushdie

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Change
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Myths, Mythology
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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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Myths, Mythology

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

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Myths, Mythology

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. – Wallace Stevens

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Myths, Mythology

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

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Myths, Mythology

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