Top 5 Frank Kermode Quotes
#1. It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.
Frank Kermode
#2. It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.
Frank Kermode
#3. The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity ... is to an incalculable extent a history of error.
Frank Kermode
#4. I suppose it would be better if one were aggressive, contentious and so on. But there's rarely any occasion to be savage.
Frank Kermode
#5. It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.
Frank Kermode
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