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Northrop Frye
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: January 23
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Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
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Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
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In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.
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The tremendous efficiency and economy of the book has once again demonstrated itself. It's the world's most patient medium.
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Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.
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One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.
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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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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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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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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.
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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
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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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Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.
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We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.
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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
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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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[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.
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We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.
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The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
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The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]
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