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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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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. – Salman Rushdie

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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. – Salman Rushdie

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

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Myths, Mythology

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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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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Myths, Mythology

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in mens minds without their being aware of the fact. – Claude Levi-Strauss

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