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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

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

Category:
Obscurity
Author
Lionel Trilling
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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
Paradise, Utopia
Author
Lionel Trilling
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Other Quotes from
Humor
category

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. Ive got a dry sense of humor. – Katie Price

Category:
Humor

Humor comes from self-confidence. – Rita Mae Brown

Category:
Humor

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige. – Jean Pigozzi

Category:
Humor

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. – Sid Caesar

Category:
Humor

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Category:
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If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. – The Talmud

Category:
Exaggeration

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously. – Joyce Carol Oates

Category:
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. – P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs

Category:
Apology