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“Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.”

Jean Cocteau quotes (French Poet, Novelist, Actor, Film Director and Painter, 1889-1963)

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“Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later”

Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914)

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“The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.”

Robert Penn Warren quotes

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“I drag my myth around with me”

Orson Welles quotes (American motion-picture actor, director, producer, and writer, 1915-1985)

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“Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts”

Vladimir Nabokov quotes (Russian born American Novelist, Critic and Author of "Lolita", 1899-1977)

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“I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.”

Madeleine Albright quotes

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“I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.”

Claude Levi-Strauss quotes (French Philosopher, b.1908)

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“What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a myth invented by jealous foreigners.”

Gerald McKnight quotes

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“Myths that need clarification: "Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach." False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.”

Erma Bombeck quotes (U.S. humorist, 1927-1996)

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“The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.”

Leo Bogart quotes

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