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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
Northrop Frye
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Northrop Frye
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: January 23
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The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
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In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.
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Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.
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A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
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Teaching literature is impossible that is why it is difficult.
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I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.
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In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.
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Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
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This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
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A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
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My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
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Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
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No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from other aspects of life: it's still embedded in religion, magic and social ceremonies.
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