Ambiguity Quote by Lionel Trilling Download Open image “Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader” — Lionel Trilling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambiguity Books Journalism Notebook Reader Reason
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
A notebook can be a clearing in the forest of your life, a place where you can be alone and content as you play… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook. — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Let me write that down in my 'Things I don't give a fuck about' notebook. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a reader; I'm more of a laptop person. I would never consider travelling without it. — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I write. For… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
A primary function of art andthought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“...perhaps we have never been more than vocal and perhaps soon we can hope to be no more than thoughtful...” — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there. — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a mirror so that we can see ourselves. Stories are mirrors of human be-ing, reflecting back our very essence. In a story, we come to know precisely the both/and, mixed-upped-ness of our very being. In the mirror… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts of science, in all their richness and ambiguity, can be presented without any compromise, without any simplification counting as distortion, in language accessible to all intelligent people. I hope that this book can be read with… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share
I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share
