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Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful
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life
legends
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Michael Moorcock |
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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history
on-fiction
legends
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Victor Hugo |
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If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.
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vampire
legends
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Christine Feehan |
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After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.
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writing
myths
legends
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness
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legends
wicked-king
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Holly Black |
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"Every ancient tale has truth at its heart," I said. "That's what I've always believed, anyway. But after years and years of retelling, the shape of those old stories changes. What may once have been simple and easily recognized becomes strange, wondrous and magical. Those are only the trappings of the story. The truth lies beneath those fantastic garments."
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myths
legends
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Juliet Marillier |
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I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and rises again at the end of three days; things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them.
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homais
myths
ignorance
legends
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Gustave Flaubert |
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Oh, man,' Azdra'ik said. 'This is what our eldest saw. This is what our legends say. Who could know, but us?
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myth
world-building
legends
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C.J. Cherryh |
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And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people...
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fairytales
legends
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Betty Smith |
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The Sith were the sworn enemies of the Jedi and the Republic. They sought to wipe us from existence; they sought to rule the galaxy. (...) A Dark Jedi, on the other hand, has much smaller ambitions. He -or she- thinks only of himself. He acts alone. The ultimate goal is not galactic conquest, but personal wealth and importance. Like a common thug or criminal, he revels in cruelty and selfishness. He preys upon the weak and vulnerable, spreading misery and suffering wherever he goes.
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sith
star-wars
legends
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Drew Karpyshyn |
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"Legends speak of a primeval Pacific homeland called "Hiva" from which the first inhabitants of Easter Island came--a homeland that also fell victim to the "mischief of Uoke's lever" and was "submerged under the sea." What is particularly intriguing about all this, because of its resonance with the Seven Sages--the Apkallu--spoken of in Mesopotamian antediluvian traditions, and with the Seven Sages of the Edfu Building Texts, who sought out new lands in which to recreate the drowned and devastated world of the gods, is that the Seven Sages--"king's sons, all initiated men"--are also said to have been instrumental in the original settlement of Easter Island. Exactly as was the case with the Apkallu, who laid the foundations of all the future temples of Mesopotamia, and with the Edfu Sages who traveled the length and breath of Egypt establishing the sacred mounds on which all future pyramids and temples were to be built, the first task of the Seven Sages from Hiva after their arrival on Easter Island was 'the construction of stone mounds."
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easter-island
pacific
mesopotamia
seven-sages
legends
egypt
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Graham Hancock |