Top 20 Frank Kermode Quotes

#1. Before we part, she returns my gun and says, "As long as you carry this you are in danger of using it.

Joaquin Lowe

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#2. 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

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#3. Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.

Zadie Smith

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#4. In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

Simon Armitage

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#5. For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art.

Robert Pinsky

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#6. I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but perhaps, above all literary critics, I'm indebted to Wayne Booth (several people have suggested to me that I'm trying to reinvent "ethical criticism").

Philip Kitcher

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#7. I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

Al Pacino

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#8. When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

Ashton Kutcher

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#9. My throat feels tight. "But I betrayed you. I left you."
"You're my daughter. I don't care about the factions."
She shakes her head. "Look where they got us. Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps in and poisons us again.

Veronica Roth

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#10. It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.

Frank Kermode

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#11. As far as he was concerned, a man who decided to rob and kill deserved what he got when he lost the game. He did not dwell on them, but neither did he jerk his eyes away if they fell on one of the robbers.

Robert Jordan

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#12. St John of the Cross once wrote: "In the evening of our life, we shall be judged by our loving.

James Runcie

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#13. 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

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#14. 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

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#15. Be grateful for your life, every detail of it,
and your face will come to shine like a sun,
and everyone who sees it will
be made glad and peaceful.

Rumi

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#16. He never says anything off the top of his head

Alice Walker

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#17. Why do the impulsive notions of a would-be do-gooder always translate into the ideals of the next civilization?

Chuck Palahniuk

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#18. Because at this time, in this place, Chinese writing exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder.

Murong Xuecun

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#19. Sex is a discovery.

Fannie Hurst

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#20. It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

Frank Kermode

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