Northrop Frye - Book Quotes

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The Great Code was a silly and sloppy book. It was also a work of very great genius. The point is that genius is not enough. A book worthy of God and of Helen [Frye's wife] must do better than that.

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Finnegans Wake is not a book to read, but a book to decipher: as Joyce says, it's about a dreamer, but it's addressed to an ideal reader suffering from ideal insomnia.

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Yesterday's kook book becomes tomorrow's standard text.

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This book forced itself on me while I was trying to write something else, and it probably still bears the marks of the reluctance with which a great part of it was composed.

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The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

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The book is the most efficient technological instrument for learning that has ever been devised by the human mind.

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The real Bible is a sealed book, an apocryphon, a book not to be opened (mentally) until its time has come.

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Even the biggest book is fragmentary: to finish anything, you have to cut your losses. Nobody every writes his dream book.

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