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

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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true. – George Orwell

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

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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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