“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”

— Joseph Campbell, book Creative Mythology

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American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904–1987

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