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“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us...” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“Never met such a Gorgon... I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair...” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then...” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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