Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader - "Lionel Trilling"

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader
Lionel Trilling

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In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
- Lionel Trilling
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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
- Lionel Trilling