Quotes & Sayings About Mythomania

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it. — Haruki Murakami

And since we don't just forget things because they don't matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprint's, it's no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania — Philip Roth