“ Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. ”
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“ Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing — he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him. ”
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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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“ 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. ”
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“ It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. ”
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“ It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. ”
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“ The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ”
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“ The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. ”
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“ Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. ”
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“ Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. ”
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“ We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. ”
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“ Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. ”
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“ Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. ”
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“ Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing — he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him. ”
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“ We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. ”
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“ A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government… ”
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“ We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. ”
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“ Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. ”
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“ A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government… ”
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“ There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. ”
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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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“ A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government… ”
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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. ”
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“ Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing — he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him. ”
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