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Tolerance and Literature

Posted on July 14, 2005 by Dana
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Literature encourages tolerance — bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they’re so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can’t see them also as possibilities. — Northrop Frye, born on this date in 1912.

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