Lionel Trilling Quotes & Sayings

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Suggest Revision: Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty
 
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Suggest Revision: Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
 
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Suggest Revision: The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
 
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Suggest Revision: The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
 
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Suggest Revision: There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
 
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Suggest Revision: This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
 
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Suggest Revision: We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
 
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Suggest Revision: We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
 
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