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The Hero With a Thousand Faces

by Joseph Campbell

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Mythologies

by Roland Barthes

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Jim B said: " The Writer on Holiday? No, the teacher on holiday. To teach more decourosly, the teacher is the prey of an inner god who teaches all the time. Is this what it means to have found your calling? Or does it just happen to everyone who works with somethi ...more "

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Jim’s Quotes

“To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

tags: anarchy, crime, laws

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“A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: literature, psychology

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“If your strength is only the other’s weakness, you live in fear,”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu

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“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

tags: african-americans, being-yourself, blacks, growing-up, race-relations, racism, self

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