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Lionel Trilling Quotes
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Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief (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)
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)
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)
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals (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)
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 is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking (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)
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)
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have (Lionel Trilling Quotes)
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over (Lionel Trilling Quotes)