To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like
Northrop FryeOne of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of 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 FryeAmericans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.
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