“It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.” — Lionel Trilling, “The Novel Alive or Dead,” A Gathering of Fugitives
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“We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.” — Lionel Trilling, “The Princess Casamassima,” The Liberal Imagination
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“Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.” — Lionel Trilling, “F. Scott Fitzgerald,” The Liberal Imagination
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“Some paradox of our nature leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.” — Lionel Trilling, “Manners, Morals and the Novel,” The Liberal Imagination
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