Northrop Frye Quotes
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.
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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
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I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
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All things are at odds when God lets a thinker loose on this planet.
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Bear in mind how valuable a secular Turkey is for the world.
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It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.
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My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.
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I love New York City; I've got a gun.
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Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves.
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Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
