Lionel Trilling Quotes

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Lionel Trilling

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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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.
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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
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Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
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American critic




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Critic, American
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