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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic Literature

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood - Lionel Trilling Quotes

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood

Lionel Trilling

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief - Lionel Trilling Quotes

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief

Lionel Trilling

Art

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic Class

Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.

Lionel Trilling

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing / he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing / he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

Lionel Trilling

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty - Lionel Trilling Quotes

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

Lionel Trilling

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather - Lionel Trilling Quotes

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather

Lionel Trilling

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Lionel Trilling

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