Cassie Steele Quote: 'I like mythology - anything historical. ...' @FEELquotes

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves.

Sue Monk Kidd

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My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.

John Edgar Wideman

Tags: Romantic Kind Anything

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

Evan Osnos

Tags: Political Chinese Mythology

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.

Samuel E. Morison

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I have built my world through Native American mythology.

Tori Amos

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The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.

Ismail Kadare

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Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

Rachel True

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Nepal is a beautiful country with a lot of holy places. I also like the country because it's close to the Himalayas. According to Hindu mythology, that's the abode of Lord Shiva.

Kailash Kher

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I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

Anne Rice

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I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

Brendan Fraser

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The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

Edmund Morgan

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Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.

Sabine Baring-Gould

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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology.

Robert Crumb

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It's been a lot of fun from script to script to get inside the mythology of 'Grimm.' We've been given a lot of freedom to explore the mythology as well as the backstories and interpersonal connections of the characters.

Sasha Roiz

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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

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I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

Alan Moore

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The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

Antony Beevor

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