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Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
— Northrop Frye
The book is the world's most patient medium.
— Northrop Frye
Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
— Northrop Frye
The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
— Northrop Frye
Losing is like my ex-wife ... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.
— Don Frye
It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.
— Soleil Moon Frye
I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!
— Soleil Moon Frye
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
— Northrop Frye
My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.
— Soleil Moon Frye
Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.
— Northrop Frye
I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.
— Soleil Moon Frye
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.
— Northrop Frye
For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man.
— Northrop Frye
This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
— Northrop Frye
Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.
— Northrop Frye
I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.
— Northrop Frye
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
— Northrop Frye
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.
— Northrop Frye
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
— Northrop Frye
Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.
— Northrop Frye
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
— Northrop Frye
Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.
— Northrop Frye
I love being pregnant!
— Soleil Moon Frye
A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
— Northrop Frye
Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?
— Dwight Frye
The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
— Northrop Frye
Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.
— Northrop Frye
I had such a hard time finding great organic and non-toxic items for my daughter.
— Soleil Moon Frye
We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
— Northrop Frye
We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.
— Northrop Frye
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To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like
— Northrop Frye
We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.
— Northrop Frye
Catsuits were big for me in the '90s, and I had many of them. Even catsuits with shorts in them.
— Soleil Moon Frye
To have a sense of education and ethics is important.
— Soleil Moon Frye
I love, I love human beings, studying them.
— Soleil Moon Frye
We can all become activists and raise questions.
— Soleil Moon Frye
In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens.
— Northrop Frye
Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.
— Northrop Frye
The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
— Northrop Frye
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
I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.
— Soleil Moon Frye
I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.
— Soleil Moon Frye
One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.
— Northrop Frye
I want to ask heterosexual academic feminists to do some hard analytical and reflective work. To begin, I want to say to them:
— Marilyn Frye
I love America. You always hurt the one you love.
— David Frye
Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.
— Northrop Frye
I used to be a free spirit.
— Soleil Moon Frye
Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.
— Soleil Moon Frye
I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.
— Soleil Moon Frye
My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
— Northrop Frye
I wanted to create a place where parents can come and find products that are safe for their children, as well as good for the planet.
— Soleil Moon Frye
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.
— Northrop Frye
Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation ...
— Northrop Frye
Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.
— Northrop Frye
The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.
— Northrop Frye
I wish you would notice that you are heterosexual.
— Marilyn Frye
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
— Northrop Frye
The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.
— Northrop Frye
It's never too early to involve your kids in giving back. And the more hands-on the experiences are, the better.
— Soleil Moon Frye
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
— Northrop Frye
