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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Myth
Roland Barthes

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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Myth
Joseph Campbell

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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Production
Albert Camus

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
Relationships
Angela Carter

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A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
Myth
James Feibleman

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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Science Fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin

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The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
Oppression
Meridel Le Sueur

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It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
Myth
Greil Marcus

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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Myth
George Orwell

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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
Family
V. S. Pritchett

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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
Myth
Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
Wickedness
Oscar Wilde

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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun