Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison.
"Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you, we lie for you, we take the heat for you. We clean up your messes and mollify our parents for you. We never fail to come across with undying adoration, whether or not you deserve it, and we can't take our lives as seriously as yours. We snuffle up the crumbs from your table on the rare occasions you notice we're alive.


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Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him...
LIONEL TRILLING
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been...
LIONEL BLUE
Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.
LIONEL BLUE
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more th...
LIONEL TRILLING
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sex...
LIONEL BLUE
One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.
LIONEL STRACHEY
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious eve...
LIONEL TRILLING
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
LIONEL TRILLING
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
LIONEL TRILLING
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
LIONEL STRACHEY
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of b...
LIONEL TRILLING
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary inte...
LIONEL TRILLING
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularit...
LIONEL TRILLING
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, poss...
LIONEL TRILLING
A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather ...
LIONEL TRILLING
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader
LIONEL TRILLING
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Ut...
LIONEL TRILLING
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecuti...
LIONEL TRILLING
In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetra...
LIONEL TRILLING
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
LIONEL TRILLING
In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous re...
LIONEL BARBER
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
LIONEL MESSI
The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
LIONEL MESSI
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
LIONEL HAMPTON
Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.
LIONEL MESSI
Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm...
LIONEL MESSI
The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the n...
LIONEL BARBER
Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond...
LIONEL HAMPTON
I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it...
LIONEL RICHIE
Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have ...
LIONEL BARBER
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
LIONEL JOSPIN
It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter M...
LIONEL MESSI
You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels li...
LIONEL RICHIE
I had the pleasure of seeing a real goddess today. She was her own definition of beauty. She was mag...
LIONEL SUGGS
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of t...
LIONEL BLUE
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ...
LIONEL TRILLING
There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way ...
LIONEL MESSI
I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble ...
LIONEL MESSI
I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to ...
LIONEL MESSI
My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, wher...
LIONEL SOSA
Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.
LIONEL SOSA
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
LIONEL TRILLING
I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nic...
LIONEL MESSI
The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Li...
LIONEL MESSI
I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Arg...
LIONEL MESSI
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reitera...
LIONEL TRILLING