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Letter "L" » Lionel Trilling Quotes
«Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.»
«All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
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artlessness, deform, deformed, deforms, pelf
«In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.»
«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.»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
| Keywords:
accused, executes, imposes, legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings, prosecution, prosecutions, The Accused
«Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.»
«The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.»
«There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.»
«Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.»
«What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.»
«The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.»
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