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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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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Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.
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For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.
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I like boys with humor.
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You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.
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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.
