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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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"The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings."
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"I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state."
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"Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?"
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"Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus?Athena's answer : What an interesting idea . . . No, just kidding, Dad. Put away the lightning bolt."
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"We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural."
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"The origin behind myths and religion is human terror of annihilation. Human societies invented mythology and religion in order to militate against people's fear of living a mortal life. People fear time as a destroyer of human happiness, human beings, and human societies."
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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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"On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges."
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"All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one."
Mystery
"I watched the stars and thought of other lives."
Wonder
"It's like the British in Ireland in 1916' , says Oisir O'Dowd. 'The repeated the ageless macho mantra, "Force is the only thing these natives understand, so often that they ended up believing it . From that point they were doomed."
Conflict
"It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind."
Awareness
"But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block..."
Mind
"Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level."
Social
"It's a bizarre act of self-mutilation to say that 'I don't get on with science fiction and fantasy, therefore I'm never going to read any'. What a shame. All those great books that you're cutting yourself off from."
Literature
"As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door."
Imagination
"There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!"
Philosophy
"At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds."
Nature
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