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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• What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for Donald Trump, and do not participate in that brand of animus, that gas-bagging of enormous bigotry.

  

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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