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"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
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"The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths."
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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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"I am not a myth."
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"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."
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"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
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"How should we be able to forget those myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
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"Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth."
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"Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?"
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"There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can."
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"Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities."
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"It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions."
Emotional
"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
Metaphor
"That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness."
Vision
"God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names."
God
"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
Work
"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."
Work
"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
Knowledge
"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
Childhood
"To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there."
Love
"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."
People
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