"The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element."

Myth, Fire, Power, Symbolism

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"The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element."

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"The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths."

George Lloyd, English Composer

Myth, Myths

"The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Myth, Fire, Power, Symbolism

"I am not a myth."

Marlene Dietrich, American Actress

Myth,

"The Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

Myth, Creation, Mythology, Religion, Culture

"Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth."

Stephen King, American Author

Myth, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Imagination

"Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?"

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Myth, Mortality, Creation, Human

"There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can."

Jessica Lange, American Actress

Myth,

"Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities."

Robert Anton Wilson, American Writer

Myth, Myths

"Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, de."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Myth, Truth, Reality, Life

"The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Myth, Truth, Pattern, Belief

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"I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else."

Writing,

"In the grueling light that passed for day..."

Poetry, Light, Life, Description

"I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it."

Reflection, Perspective, Affection, Understanding, Reality

"Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie."

Philosophy, Death, Truth, Life, Reality

"The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic."

Faith, God, Fate, Identity

"By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp."

Nature, Sun, Emotion, Mood

"I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it."

Happiness, Life, Reality, Experience

"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."

Philosophy, Existence, Identity, Expression, Life

"Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on the ground behind them."

Philosophy, Change, Transition, Life, Reality

"I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt."

Truth, Lies, Memory, Stability