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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."
"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
"Don't depend on the thoughts, "I need more time". There are only 24 hours in each day. You can't make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit."
"Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightsFour nights will quickly dream away the time."
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."
"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."
"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
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