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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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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 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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It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question Who am I? than by some such riddle as Where is here?
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We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres.
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In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.
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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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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
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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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