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Precise Quotes by Lionel Trilling
- Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
- Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty
More Precise Quotes
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. — Franklin P. Adams
- I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order… — Henry Ward Beecher
- We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority… — Annie Besant
- Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. — Theodor Adorno
- I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way. — Christina Aguilera
- Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will… — Warren Buffett
- Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene. — Nicolas Cage