"I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore."

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Source : "TV.com Q&A: Supernatural creator Eric Kripke". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. January 10, 2008.

Eric Kripke

#Legends Quotes #Urban Quotes #Obsession Quotes

“May we not have a picture of Christ, who has a true body? By no means; because, though he has a true body and a reasonable soul, John 1:14, yet his human nature subsists in his divine person, which no picture can represent, Psalm 45:2. Why ought all pictures of Christ to be abominated by Christians? Because they are downright lies, representing no more than the picture of a mere man: whereas, the true Christ is God-man”
“Fun is where it's at. That's why you have to be there.”
“All that is required is to know this. For you are the creator of your reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will.”
“A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.”
“I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but.”
“There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing" community. They were focusing on making a better existence for themselves, which I think is also the driving force of 20th century communalism in the US, the thought being that the world is corrupt, and we're going to build this little garden of innocence.”
“Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.”
“By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.”

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