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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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Northrop Frye
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: January 23
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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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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In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.
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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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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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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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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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No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from other aspects of life: it's still embedded in religion, magic and social ceremonies.
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