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Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of
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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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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The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
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Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
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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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The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.
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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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Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.
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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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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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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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In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.
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Teaching literature is impossible that is why it is difficult.
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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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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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