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“I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.”

Ideas Different Stories Millions Picks Committed Myth Different Place

Author:Max Landis

“So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.”

People Ifs Wells Stories Evil Sick Myth

Author:Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.”

People Facts Stories Culture Strong Loses Ability Learning Teaching Hero Dues Myth Contemporary Plot Unhappiness Constructs Lifelong Heroines

Author:Guy Claxton

“I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized 'realistic' story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its 'realist' style.”

Thinking Feels Stories Reality Today Order Deals Situation Style Myth Tales Enjoyed Preserves Fairy Realistic Fairy Tale Presenting Realist Surrealism Omission Surrealist

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.”

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

“Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.”

People Giving Stories Purpose Memories Stage Perception Institutions Structure Metaphor Myth Mythology Aspiration Maps Ritual Rationale Stages Of Life

Book:The passionate life: stages of loving

Source: The passionate life: stages of loving

“Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.”

“While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.”

Men Stories Wealth Class Poverty Study Middle Percent Myth Riches Executives Steel Rags Railroads Upper Class Horatio Textiles Rags To Riches

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of the material Universe, that other myths are true in terms of their cultural meaning, and that there's absolutely no problem with holding more than one story, just as there's no problem with viewing the sunset in terms of planetary rotation and spectra and nuclear fusions one moment and as visual splendor the next.”

Moments Stories Problem Seems Happens Universe Next Term Materials Myth Nuclear Being True Fantastic Visuals Sunset Epic No Problem Splendor Fusion Rotation Nuclear Fusion

Author:Ursula Goodenough

“The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.”

People Ideas Country Stories Values Wish Identity Solitude Myth Preserves Canada Pondering Contemplative Reverie

Author:B. W. Powe

“Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book.”

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Author:Karl Schroeder

“Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.”

Sometimes Stories Reality Lying Behinds Truth Is Myth Legends Chill Radiant

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.”

Children Stories Parent Differences Lines Family Influence Talent Myth Explanation Temperament Allegiance Children And Parents

Book:Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties

Source: Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties