Tanith Lee book The Birthgrave
Book Two, Part I “Across the Ring”, Chapter 2 (p. 151)
The Birthgrave (1975)
“I now know that legends in themselves have no power. The power comes from the uses that the living make of the legend. The legends merely represent an ideal.”
Book 3, Chapter 2 “The Destruction in the Fortress” (p. 260)
The Elric Cycle, The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)
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Context: Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight? A man may do both, said Aragorn. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!
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Source: Elric of Melniboné
“A legend is merely a history man decided to bugger.”
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Source: Hunt the Moon
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
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“Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)”
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Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 3
Context: True, he thought, but no one ever got the chance to know it. Oh, they knew it was something, but it couldn’t be that — not that. That was imagination, that was superstition, there was no such thing as that.
And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.