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Northrop Frye Quotes


A Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.
Herman ("Norrie") Northrop Frye, CC, FRSC (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.

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The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

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War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.

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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

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There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

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The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

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Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

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Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

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Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

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The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

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Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing but if the writer deliberately aims at truth he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

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We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

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Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.