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From Quotes by Lionel Trilling
- Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing…
- If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present…
- A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That…
- This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so…
- A primary function of art andthought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him…
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