Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
Lionel Trilling
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness possibility complexity and difficulty.
- Lionel Trilling