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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. - Lionel Trilling

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. – Lionel Trilling

Other quotes by Lionel Trilling

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
Imagination
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Lionel Trilling
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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
legal
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Lionel Trilling
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Other Quotes from
Art
category

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. – Martha Beck

Category:
Art

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them. – Nelson Mandela

Category:
Art

There is something ghostly in all great art. – Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) [a.k.a. Koizumi Yakumo —tεᖇ&#5

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Art

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. – Andre Gide

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Art

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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. – Wendell Phillips

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I prefer ordinary girls – you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesnt mean we are dating. – Leonardo DiCaprio

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dating

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. – Natalie Clifford Barney

Category:
Neutrality

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. – Albert Einstein

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Math