"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
-Lionel Trilling
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"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."
-Lionel Trilling
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"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."
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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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"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
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"We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
-Woody Allen
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
-Ernst Fischer
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
-Steve Martin
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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