"We must reject that most dismal and fatuous……" — Northrop Frye
"We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life."
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54 Quotes by Northrop Frye
Northrop Frye has 54 quotes on this site.
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work…
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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that…
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a…
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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…
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of…
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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…
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Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a…
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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…
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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 person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
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When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
— Margaret Atwood
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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these…
— Jimmy Carter
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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole…
— Charles Dickens
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About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for…
— Joshua Slocum
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When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use…
— W. S. Gilbert
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So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy
— Thomas Carlyle
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