NFNorthrop Frye

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Northrop Frye

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

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

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02Undated

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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03Undated

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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