“When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.” KnowsWorldWayHas BeensKidsMythBunchGreekZeusAthenaBradyGreek MythBrady Bunch Author:George Saunders
“The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.” Has BeensPhilosophyInfluenceMythRepublicFounding Author:Robert Trout
“There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.” ShouldHas BeensPopulationMythExcluded Author:Edward Zwick
“What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.” IfsThinkingLittlesHas BeensBitsLessonsBlessingLittle BitDemocraticMythSavedSocialismWhat IfSovietDisguiseInterventionPessimistFloweringVery SadBlessings In DisguiseDemocratic Socialism Author:Slavoj Žižek
“In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.” Has BeensDiesJesusChristJesus ChristCastsMythOppositionTestamentNew Testament Author:G. C. Berkouwer
“The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.” Has BeensImportantDifferentCertainCultureProcessInspireNormalRelationMythArtisticReverse Author:Asger Jorn
“What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.” KindHas BeensSometimesFactsInterestingStudyBecomingConsciousLongingMythConspiracyBecoming MoreMute Book:The Light of Other Days Source: The Light of Other Days