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"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
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"In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody 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 other half."
"Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth."
"In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction."
"The more real things get, the more like myths they become."
"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"
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"If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them."
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"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."
"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
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