One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. – Mrs. Humphrey Ward
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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
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
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
To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And hes telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, theres something that gives them away. Theyre not telling me the truth. – Jonathan Frid