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"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
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"We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."
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"All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names."
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"The Dark Powers have to give before they can take."
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"There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can."
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"Mind of myth sees ghost."
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"Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from."
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"According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half."
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"In the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite."
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"If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees."
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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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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
Trouble
"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
Imagination
"Metaphor is embodied in language."
Language
"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."
Work
"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty."
Poetry
"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."
Age
"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
Metaphor
"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."
Criticism
"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."
Act
"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
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