Lionel Trilling

Youth is a...

Youth is a...

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

Source: In...

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A primary function...

A primary function...

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the...

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Immature artists imitate....

Immature artists imitate....

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Source: Esquire Magazine,...

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What marks the...

What marks the...

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

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Where misunderstanding serves...

Where misunderstanding serves...

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself...

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This is the...

This is the...

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with...

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The poet is...

The poet is...

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the...

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Literature is the...

Literature is the...

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility,...

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Our culture peculiarly...

Our culture peculiarly...

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and...

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