Northrop Frye Quotes
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.
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I only go to yoga to drink wine, so I'm good. I just throw the calories right back in.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.
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Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
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On your journey, don't forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you're alive. You can only live in one day.
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Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising.
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Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.
