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Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons having to do with emotional safety, we have very strong ties of whose meaning and consequences in actuality we have no clear understanding (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have (Lionel Trilling Quotes)