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We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.

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Northrop Frye
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: January 23
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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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Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.
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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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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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Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.
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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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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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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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One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.
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