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Lionel Trilling

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."

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Donna Grant

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

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Donna Grant

"The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted."

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Donna Grant

"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."

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Donna Grant

"I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman."

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Donna Grant

"I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide."

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Donna Grant

"Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."

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Donna Grant

"Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad."

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Donna Grant

"Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue."

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Donna Grant

"My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts."

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Lionel Trilling
"What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have."

Power

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Lionel Trilling
"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."

Writing

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

Life

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Lionel Trilling
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."

Creativity

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Lionel Trilling
"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."

Imagination

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Lionel Trilling
"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."

Society

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Lionel Trilling
"We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."

Health

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Lionel Trilling
"The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal."

Creativity

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Lionel Trilling
"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."

Heart

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Lionel Trilling
"Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over."

Time

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