"It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected."

-- Mircea Eliade

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“Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.”
“Have you talked to North?" he said. "Yes," she said. "I asked him to get us cable." "I wish you weren't talking to him." "I'd talk to Satan to get cable," Andie said.”
“I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.”
“As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head.”
“I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.”
“I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature.”
“I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role, But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old.”
“The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.”

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