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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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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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Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.
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The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
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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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[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.
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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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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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A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
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Teaching literature is impossible that is why it is difficult.
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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
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Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.
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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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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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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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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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We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres.
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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
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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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