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 More Quotes by Frank Kermode More Quotes From Frank Kermode It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end. Frank Kermode charm ends book 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 differences doors science It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. Frank Kermode encounters fiction
