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Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished read more
Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. read more
They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
