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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie

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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. – Salman Rushdie

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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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Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a – 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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Myths, Mythology

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

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The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. – Bernadine Dohrn

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