Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
Lionel TrillingI find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.
Lionel TrillingThe diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.
Lionel Trilling