It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel Trilling quote Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
Lionel Trilling quote Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
Lionel Trilling quote 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 quote 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 quote Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Lionel Trilling quote Biography
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