Quote by Greil Marcus
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is

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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It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits. – Greil Marcus

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. – Greil Marcus

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Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them. – Greil Marcus

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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

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

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

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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Its always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there. – Haley Reinhart

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