Author

Lionel Trilling

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“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”— Lionel Trilling
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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.”— Lionel Trilling
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“We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.”— Lionel Trilling
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“Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.”— Lionel Trilling
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“There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.”— Lionel Trilling
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“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
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“The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.”— Lionel Trilling