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Northrop Frye has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art…
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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 reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak…
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation…
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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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…
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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…
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Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and…
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Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but…
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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…
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The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
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We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.
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Americans like fat books and thin women.
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I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want…
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I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes…
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Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a…
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The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.
— Walt Whitman
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I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put…
— John Keegan
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If the Americans like to eat GMO products, let them eat it then. We don’t need to do that; we have enough…
— Dmitry Medvedev
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Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain…
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Another day it occurred to me that time as we know it doesn't exist in a lawn, since grass never dies or…
— Michael Pollan
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Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in…
— Bobby Fischer
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I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take…
— Greg LeMond
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Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no…
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