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Lionel Trilling Quotes

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Lionel Trilling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: July 4, 1905 - November 5, 1975

Topics

Misunderstanding Others Understood

The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.

Depression Me More Kid Little Being

I've been reading poetry publicly for 20 years, and this is what you do - you express, you sometimes dig a bit to get a conversation started. That's the point of poetry. You're supposed to go, 'Hmmmm,' and 'Woooh!'

Poetry Reading You Conversation Go

Being confident without makeup is sexy.

Makeup Sexy Confident Without Being

I mourn for the kind of dad I didn't have; I rue my first broken family while taking joy in the one that I've made.

Family Broken Joy Kind First Made

As the 19th century teetered into the 20th, the clank of typewriter keys went from solo to symphony. They were the weapon of choice for professional writers, the business elite, people with things to say and the need to say them quickly.

Business People Choice Professional

All the airports kind of feel and look the same now. Some are more beautiful, some are less beautiful, but for the most part you're going to find a Starbucks in every airport. You're going to get your coffee and the 'USA Today' or 'New York Times' in every airport.

Today Beautiful Coffee New York Look

You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?

Johnny Knoxville

Feet Short You Jump Five Ten

In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can't really be applied to a nine-to-five.

World Vintage Speak I Can Know

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

Effort Democracy American Somewhere

The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.

Debbie Stabenow

Health Care Picture Insurance Will

I made a promise to be as creative as I could, even outside of music.

Music Creative Outside Promise Made

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

Coleman Hawkins

Mistakes Trying You Make Really

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