“The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.”
Of John Campbell, as quoted by Joseph Wharton; reported in "John Campbell", Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)
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Source: 1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Chapter 4, p. 120
“A real author gets his best pieces of literature from narrow alleys and dirty houses”
Jean Gerson, quoted on p. 520
A Distant Mirror (1978)
Letter to The Daily Telegraph, July 8, 1941; published in The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1910-41 (New York: Macmillan, 1975) p. 890.
Of P. G. Wodehouse's wartime broadcasts from Berlin.
As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations : A Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 154
“The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve.'”
Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 1: The Motive For Metaphor http://northropfrye-theeducatedimagination.blogspot.ca/2009/08/1-motive-for-metaphor.html
“No author ever spar'd a brother.”
Fable X, "The Elephant and the Bookseller"
Fables (1727)
“The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.”
With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
2000s, 2001, First inaugural address (January 2001)
