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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
"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect."
"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."
"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
"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."
"Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere."
"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."
"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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