Northrop Frye Quotes

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

Northrop Frye

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• There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

  

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• Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.

  

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• Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.

  

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• I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.

  

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• Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

  

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• The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

  

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• Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

  

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• Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

  

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• If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

  

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• The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Deals
  • Speed
  • Tire