You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning… a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

About Joseph Campbell

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with...

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Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament: you give up your personal simplicity to participate. And you are not giving to the other person; you are giving to the relationship. Because you are not giving to the other person, it is not impoverishing—it is life-building, life-fostering, enriching.

—Joseph Campbell

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

—Joseph Campbell

Our schizophrenic patient is actually experiencing inadvertently that same beatific ocean deep which the yogi and saint are ever striving to enjoy: except that, whereas they are swimming in it, he is drowning.

—Joseph Campbell

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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

—Joseph Campbell

The ultimate aim of the quest… must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but wisdom and power to serve others.

—Joseph Campbell

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All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

—H. L. Mencken

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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

—G. K. Chesterton

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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

—Elbert Hubbard

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USA Today has come out with a new survey—apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

—David Letterman

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.

—Cyril Connolly

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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.