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Quote by Lionel Trilling
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary wea

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – 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

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legal
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Lionel Trilling
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Other Quotes from
Humor
category

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies. – Connie Nielsen

Category:
Humor

The script was just the best Id read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasnt expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it. – Stephen Collins

Category:
Humor

However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be. – Craig Kilborn

Category:
Humor

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isnt. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. – Horace Walpole

Category:
Humor

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My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldnt even play the drums right – Brian had to show me. – Dennis Wilson

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The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket – they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses. – Julie Burchill

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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Category:
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. – Jane Austen

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work