“Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.”
"Parable of Cervantes and Don Quixote" (January 1955)
Tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Dreamtigers (1960)
Variant: In the beginning of literature there is myth, as there is also in the end of it.
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Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986Related quotes
“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.”
Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963), Ch. 1 "Science : Conjectures and Refutations", Section VII
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Kenneth Sisam Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964) p. 108.
Criticism
“The height of a strategy is also the beginning of its demise.”
DCJ # 35 Hebrew, OCT 21
“A writer is in the end not his books, but his myth. And that myth is in the keeping of others.”
"Steinbeck in Monterey" (1970), in Daily Telegraph Magazine (3 April 1970), later published in The Overcrowded Barracoon, and other articles (1972)
“As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end.”
As quoted in The Cyclopaedia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin (1894) edited by J. K. Hoyt and Anna L. Ward, p. 508
Context: As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)