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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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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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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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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In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.
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I think that one day I won't have any kind of... sort of, or it will be either way, I won't have to think about anything. But at the moment, god I think probably because of what I do and the nature of how it is, I'm all over the place all of the time.
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The reason we love nature is because it's fascinating and we love all the creatures, but if you watch any nature film, there's always a lesson: "the creatures are all dying and life sucks." The same is true of literature.
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Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.
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I'm just tired of getting out-rebounded. When you have a young team, you're going to have one problem after another. But I've been tired of this rebounding situation this entire year.
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There were a lot of times where I didn't get any shows and even until recently got a lot of kind of negative commentary from social media about my runway walk.
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There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
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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.
