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It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
— Lionel Trilling
Tags: willing, now, art, life

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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
— Lionel Trilling
Tags: process, end, someone, legal
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
— Lionel Trilling
Tags: ideas, deep, political, imagination
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
Tags: literature, self, society, culture
The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
— Lionel Trilling
Tags: steal, immature, artist, mature
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
— Lionel Trilling
Tags: he, forget, weather, poetry
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