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What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Anthropologist
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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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