My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is … - Joseph Campbell

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What is the freedom a man can enjoy? Man is governed by certain restraints. He has to adhere to truth.

Joseph Campbell

My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big gathering of stuff, and I have been reading it for some forty- or fifty-odd years. There are various ways of handling that. The most common is to put the material together and publish a scholarly book about it. But when I'm writing, I try to get a sense of an experiential relationship to the material. In fact, I can't write unless that happens. . . I don't write unless the stuff is really working on me, and my selection of material depends on what works.

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