Northrop Frye Quotes
Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.
Northrop Frye
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.
Harold Ramis
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French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
Lafcadio Hearn
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Webster was much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin
T. S. Eliot
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Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But as the world, harmoniously confus'd, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Alexander Pope
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The most important thing that most countries around the world believe in is letting the markets determine the currency.
Alan Mulally
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You had my heart inside of your hand but you played it to the beat.
Adele
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I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.
V. S. Pritchett
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I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.
Madison Smartt Bell
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A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'
William Murchison
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When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.
Marilynne Robinson
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Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.
Northrop Frye
