It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. -Lionel Trilling

 

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.


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It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

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