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

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Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.259, New York Review of Books

Lionel Trilling

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“What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!”
“And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.”
“The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.”
“I dont usually have dreams. I'm to busy sleeping to dream.”
“I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses”
“Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.”
“Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.”
“The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.”

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