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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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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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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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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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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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He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive. – Joseph Campbell

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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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