traditional quotes

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

- Northrop Frye
The Bush Garden,'Conclusion'.

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

-John Kenneth Galbraith
  The New Industrial State.

He understood†Walt Whitman, who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary, and Herman Melville who split the atom of the traditional novel in the effort to make whaling a universal metaphor.

- David John Lodge
  Changing Places, ch.5.

Hunting the author, painter and musician is a traditional and popular sport. In this country poet-baiting at an early stage assumed the place of bull-baiting.

- Sir (Francis) Osbert Sitwell
  'What It Feels Like to be an Author'.

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  TheAdventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.5.

The new industrial revolution is a two-edged sword. It may be used for the benefit of humanity, assuming that humanity survives long enough to reach a period in whichsuch a benefit ispossible.If, however, we proceed along the clear and obvious lines of our traditional behavior, and follow our traditional worship of progress and the fifth freedomthe freedom to exploitit is practically certain that we shall have to face a decade or more of ruin and despair.

- Norbert Wiener
  The Human Use of Human Beings.