"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive."

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Source : 1965 Beyond Culture, introduction.

Lionel Trilling

#Acceptance Quotes #Self Quotes #Mutation Quotes

“I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.”
“The perfect time to start something never arrives START NOW!”
“Can I be cocky for a second? If I hit a home run 80 percent of the times, and you want to talk about the 20 times I miss swinging the bat, Iâ€™m okay with that.”
“Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.63, The Floating Press
“There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.”
“Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.”
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

Source : "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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