Lionel Trilling Quotes
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.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I don't feel closeted.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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Old beach houses sometimes don't have TVs, or you don't get cellphone reception.
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Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. - Mr. Spencer
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Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.
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Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.
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Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.
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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.
