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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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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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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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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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

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

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes

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

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We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously. – Aaron Swartz

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Ones mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. – A. C. Benson

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