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Immature artists imitate.Mature artists steal. — Lionel Trilling
Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.
— Diana Trilling
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
— Lionel Trilling
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
— 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
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
— 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
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
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
— Lionel Trilling
Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.
— Diana Trilling
I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.
— Lionel Trilling
Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.
— Diana Trilling
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
— Lionel Trilling
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
We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
— 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
Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.
— Diana Trilling
From somewhere in the blue vault of heaven overhead came the joyous trilling of a lark, from below the silken rustling of the tideless sea.
— Rafael Sabatini
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
The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
— Lionel Trilling
Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.
— Diana 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
We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.
— Diana Trilling
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
— Lionel Trilling
