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Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

Northrop Frye

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Northrop Frye
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: January 23
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Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and an end, and some traces of a total structure.
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Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.
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I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.
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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 disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
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Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.
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Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a type or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense.
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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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There is a curious law of art... that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination.
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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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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[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.
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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 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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To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like
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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
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Americans like to make money Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.
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Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
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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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We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.
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