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  Quote posted by  nickstreet36 7 months 3 days ago

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  A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

  —Gilbert Ryle (1949)

  Quote tags:art, metaphor, myth, mythology, symbolism
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  Quote posted by  par1138 9 months 24 days ago

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  And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night, is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.

  —Vladimir Nabokov

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  Quote posted by  nickstreet36 14 months 20 days ago

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  Symbols endure when their meaning is lost.

  —Frank Herbert

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  Quote posted by  par1138 16 months 14 days ago

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  How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak.

  —Jack Handey

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