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"Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him."
- Trilling, Lionel

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/24189">Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7299/">Trilling, Lionel</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/literature/">Literature</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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