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Quotes About Trilling

From somewhere in the blue vault of heaven overhead came the joyous trilling of a lark, from below the silken rustling of the tideless sea.
~ Rafael Sabatini
Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.
~ Lionel Trilling
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
~ Lionel Trilling
Abdul owned only one cassette tape: Judy Collins's Greatest Hits. I tried sleeping. I tried shutting it out, but, in the end, the soulless trilling and warbling of 'Both Sides Now' slowly ground me down to a state of near-hysterical desperation.
~ Anthony Bourdain
was trilling out of his phone again. Another female. Another problem.
~ Chris d'Lacey
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
~ Lionel Trilling
Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind," as he puts it in the essay on Partisan Review, "we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.
~ Lionel Trilling
she hopped and darted to and fro like a bird in a berry bush, trilling and twittering a series of notes as liquidly bright as a cardinal's song
~ Philip Roth