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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act. — Nick Cave

Immature artists imitate.
Mature artists steal. — Lionel Trilling

But at some point you have to just decide that if a bear's going to eat you, a bear's going to eat you, and then you go about your day. — Stephen Graham Jones

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

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. — Lionel Trilling

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like. — Lionel Trilling

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. — Lionel Trilling

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

After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain. — Lionel Trilling

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. — Lionel Trilling

Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth. — Lionel Trilling

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. — Lionel Trilling

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. — Lionel Trilling

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

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. — Lionel Trilling

I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language. — Lionel Trilling

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. — Lionel Trilling

The hardest part about making movies is staying the exact same weight every day and looking the same. — Justin Timberlake

Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than I'll never leave you. — Clive Barker

Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally. — Penney Peirce

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

We have all in some degree become anarchistic. — Lionel Trilling

Once a company has adapted to a new environment, it is no longer the organization it used to be; it has evolved. That is the essence of learning. — Arie De Geus

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers. — Ogden Nash

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. — Lionel Trilling

Perhaps we have never been more than vocal and perhaps soon we can hope to be no more than thoughtful ... — Lionel Trilling

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

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

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. — Lionel Trilling

Don't rely on those who tell you "I will". Those who would, already have. Those who won't, will always tell you, "I will". — Roland Odinkemelu

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. — Lionel Trilling

I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long. — Raymond Chandler