Lionel Trilling Quotes on Criticism
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It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
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We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.