Lionel Trilling

Quotes by Lionel Trilling

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Literary critic · American · 1905–1975

American literary critic (1905–1975)

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“The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation.”
— Lionel Trilling

“Rousseau ... is aesthetically revolted by the trashiness of what, some twenty years ago, David Riesman called the 'other-directed' personality, which he saw becoming ever-more salient in our societ...”
— Lionel Trilling