"We live, understandably enough, with the sense of……" — Lionel Trilling
"We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time."
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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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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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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.
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The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait…
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Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!” said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside…
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And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If…
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E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!" The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the…
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(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary,…
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