"Probably it is impossible for humor to be……" — Lionel Trilling
"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
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Lionel Trilling
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36 Quotes by Lionel Trilling
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
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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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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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I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the…
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I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains
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Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But…
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The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and…
— David Selbourne
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My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming…
— Andrew Weil
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But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.
— Voltaire
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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock…
— Voltaire
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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when…
— Voltaire
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You're a bitter man," said Candide. That's because I've lived," said Martin.
— Voltaire
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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have…
— Voltaire
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All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from…
— Voltaire
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The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?
— Jandy Nelson
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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.
— Voltaire
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