Northrop Frye Quotes
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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I have never seen homosexual chicken or turkey.
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I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.
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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.
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The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.
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EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.1
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Blue Moon,You knew just what I was there for,You heard me saying a prayer for,Someone I really could care for.
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Something is very wrong when our federal and state governments have a high tolerance for the unrestricted distribution of weapons of mass destruction, and it would be wrong to let this deadly form of neglect continue to facilitate bloodshed across America.
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I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.
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One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.
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I like bringing smiles to people's faces.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
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I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.
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I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
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Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!
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The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
