Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Kermode

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Sir John Frank Kermode, FBA was a British literary critic best known for his 1967 work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing.

British - Critic | November 29, 1919 - August 17, 2010

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It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

Frank Kermode

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

Frank Kermode

I noticed affixed to a laboratory door the following words: "Les théories passent. Le Grenouille reste. [The theories pass. The frog remains.] &mdashJean Rostand, Carnets d'un biologiste." There is a risk that in the less severe discipline of criticism the result may turn out to be different; the theories will remain but the frog may disappear.

Frank Kermode

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

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Kermode

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