Northrop Frye Quotes
Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.
Northrop Frye
Quotes to Explore
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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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Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
Bill Griffith
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I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.
Letitia Baldrige
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I usually know where I want to end up when I begin, but I have no idea how I'm going to get there... I don't write with an outline, and surprises happen on the way, and sometimes it changes.
Kevin Henkes
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Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.
Kimberly Caldwell
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
Ben Harper
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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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The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
Albert Einstein
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It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
Walead Beshty
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Where we're operating is orbital adventures. We would offer five to seven days in low Earth orbit aboard our own spacecraft where customers would have the view of the Earth; get to experience really living in space, probably conducting some scientific investigations that we would piggyback onto those flights. So, they would have the whole experience, kind of a mini-experience of what professional astronauts have.
Leroy Chiao
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The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.
H. L. Mencken
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Invaluable....the best one-stop source I've seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis.
Alan Bock
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Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.
Northrop Frye
