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![Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93] Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/894/893213/893213.webp "Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93] Picture Quote #1")
![I don’t see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92] Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/906/905728/905728.webp "I don’t see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92] Picture Quote #1")
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Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution (Northrop Frye Quotes)
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature (Northrop Frye Quotes)
Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world (Northrop Frye Quotes)
Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study (Northrop Frye Quotes)
We have only the choice between a badly trained imagination and a well trained one (Northrop Frye Quotes)
Our reaction to advertising is really a form of literary criticism (Northrop Frye Quotes)
My greater simplicity came from a deeper level than the labyrinth of the brain (Northrop Frye Quotes)
We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity (Northrop Frye Quotes)
Yesterday's kook book becomes tomorrow's standard text (Northrop Frye Quotes)
A literary critic of experience never defines anything (Northrop Frye Quotes)
Give me a place to stand, and I will include the world (Northrop Frye Quotes)
The simplest questions are the hardest to answer (Northrop Frye Quotes)
Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading (Northrop Frye Quotes)
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones (Northrop Frye Quotes)
Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images (Northrop Frye Quotes)
In the world of the imagination, anything goes that’s imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens. (Northrop Frye Quotes)
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology. (Northrop Frye Quotes)
Literature encourages tolerance-bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they’re so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can’t see them also as possibilities. (Northrop Frye Quotes)
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93] (Northrop Frye Quotes)
I don’t see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92] (Northrop Frye Quotes)
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game. (Northrop Frye Quotes)
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. (Northrop Frye Quotes)
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning. (Northrop Frye Quotes)
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of "quaint", and cultivated people become interested in it; and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive (Northrop Frye Quotes)
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas (Northrop Frye Quotes)
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition (Northrop Frye Quotes)
There is a curious law of art...That even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination (Northrop Frye Quotes)
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature (Northrop Frye Quotes)
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself (Northrop Frye Quotes)
The only way to forestall the work of criticism is through censorship, which has the same relation to criticism that lynching has to justice (Northrop Frye Quotes)