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Laurence Overmire

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JOAN D. VINGE Being present is being connected to All Things.
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LINDA SEGER To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll ...
JOSEPH BRUCHAC The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.
STEPHEN RICHARDS The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in wo...
ALAN GARNER [Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural...
MARGARET ATWOOD This creature is the Pooka. Pay no mind to the shape he wears, for he’s none of his own, and no so...
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at ...
LISA SEGER The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, ...
STUART HADDON The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only de...
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DAVID DOBSON All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has su...
JOHN BOORMAN Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
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LAURENCE OVERMIRE Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE Life is a poem most people never read.
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ANNIE BESANT Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psych...
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VICTOR HUGO WOW DID I JUST SEE LIL B?

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M.K. HUME But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story...
DAVID CLEMENT-DAVIES Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how relia...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, ...
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CHARLES DE LINT We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because...
ITALO CALVINO Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because...
ITALO CALVINO Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form ...
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NICOLA STURGEON As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do the...
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RICHIE SAMBORA I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I h...
STEVE ERICKSON Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because th...
C. JOYBELL C. Magic ran in the family. Even her mother's second cousin, who was adopted, did small spells on the s...
ZEN CHO Myths, fables and fairy tales are parables of what could never ever happen except in real life.
DAVID L. HATTON This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater t...
JOHN GRANGER Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that ...
JAMES BALDWIN Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that ...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is B...
BOB KANE All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
ANITA B. SULSER What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I...
ALBERT CAMUS Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER Every myth has a modicum of truth
LONNY LEE We are all different threads, intertwined, woven beautifully into one fabric called the Mankind
DIPANKAR CHAKRAVARTY The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.
DAVID MITCHELL But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver.

No, said Tolki...
HUMPHREY CARPENTER I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
WALLY LAMB How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin,...
NICOLA STURGEON I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coh...
ALAN MOORE [a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for ...
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XAVIER DOLAN He already knew the first time he saw Dimple’s picture that their story would become a sort of leg...
SANDHYA MENON All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose...
ROBERTSON DAVIES When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY I thought: if I die, I hope I get reincarnated into a mosquito so I can bite that fucker kau-kau.
ZEN CHO Other dragons are bastards. I moved out of my mother's cave after my mother tried to rip my guts out...
ZEN CHO He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.
ZEN CHO But a woman should not marry where there is no respect. Respect is the most important thing.
ZEN CHO Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of t...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich signific...
C.S. LEWIS It is raining! In other words little poems are coming down from the sky! Nature is literature! Sun i...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I?m embarrassed, the players are embarrassed, maybe all Scotland is embarrassed.' - on being thrashe...
BERTI VOGTS I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that...
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STALINA GOODWIN The reality of life is that we are all living someone else's dream. Now that's everyone's fantasy.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
DIANE DUANE A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category...
GILBERT RYLE A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category i...
GILBERT RYLE But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Ambition and dissatisfaction are intertwined.
RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but ...
C.S. LEWIS A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in t...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy
FRAN LEBOWITZ A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or trut...
ASHWIN SANGHI I'm a kid in a candy story, ... And I'm living out a major fantasy.
DEAN DEVLIN Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.
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LAURENCE PETTIT The reason that kids take chances when they drive is not because they're ignorant. It's because othe...
LAURENCE STEINBERG The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public...
LAURENCE STEINBERG Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.
LAURENCE STEINBERG The older you are, the more hours you can withstand without seeing harmful effects. But generally, n...
LAURENCE STEINBERG We are not very good at looking at people when they are 16 and predicting what they will be like whe...
LAURENCE STEINBERG If you have these four things, it doesn't matter what ethnic group you're from, you'll do well in sc...
LAURENCE STEINBERG If they were to drink multiple glasses of this mixture or concoction, I think there'd be a potential...
LAURENCE SPERLING Some of this benefit we see now may be a combination of our increased awareness of heart disease in ...
LAURENCE SPERLING Mr. Knight doesn't have $107 million. It remains to be seen what becomes of Death Row.
LAURENCE STRICK He has no choice, the way these people have forced his hand.
LAURENCE STRICK He doesn't pull any punches. He tells the pastors what's on his heart.
LAURENCE WHITE It's often said that there are countries where bribery is a way of life, and that's still the case.
LAURENCE URGENSON This is an amazing and rare collection of Michael Jordan memorabilia that doesn't come along everyda...
LAURENCE TONEY We're not trying to displace (offline sales); we're trying to offer another channel. Our goal is rea...
LAURENCE TONEY I believe a pastor has an obligation to speak to the moral issues of the country on the basis of the...
LAURENCE WHITE If you're having a Republican state convention, you want everybody there. This isn't that kind of me...
LAURENCE WHITE The Internet means record companies have to fight a bit harder.
LAURENCE BELL The extension of the contract demonstrates our strong confidence in the Chinese aviation market and ...
LAURENCE BARRON It's a good move for Airbus because we don't have enough space in Beijing now and China Eastern is t...
LAURENCE BARRON It is the 20th anniversary of the successful co-operation of Airbus with China's aviation industry, ...
LAURENCE BARRON It is not a question of concern but obviously a question of great interest to us.
LAURENCE BARRON One in six planes sold this year will go to China. Next year that will be one in five.
LAURENCE BARRON It's the market where you have to be.
LAURENCE BARRON The year 2005 is quite a significant year for us, not only globally, but particularly in China.
LAURENCE BARRON