Northrop Frye Quotes
The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
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Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.
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If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.
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But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
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I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.
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I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
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I actually think that's true, that we kind of create our own hell.
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan.
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There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.
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In this office we do not have problems. We have interesting developments. We have challenges. If we absolute must we may, on occasion, have a slight difficulty. But under no circumstances whatsoever do we have problems.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.
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The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
