"A theory of the middle class: that it……" — Lionel Trilling
"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 is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly."
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36 Quotes by Lionel Trilling
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
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Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas…
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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
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If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the…
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At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it…
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