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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."
"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."
"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."
"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
Explore more quotes by Lionel Trilling
"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."
"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."
"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."
"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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