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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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Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you want to…
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Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . .…
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The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in…
— Northrop Frye
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I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
— Kiran Desai
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I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony…
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Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
— Gloria Swanson
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I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
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I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and…
— Eli Wallach
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I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in…
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The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy…
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