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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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A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and…
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful…
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He who gets slapped and he who gets saved, He who brutalizes the timeless stage.
— Rob Zombie
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