#elf

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#aware #been #culture #function #high

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#abuse #anymore #arrests #child #child abuse

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself. ↗

— Travis Tritt

#crawl #dog #every #having #house

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#herself #himself #husband #life #man

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#driven #emergency #gradually #itself #make

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#carries #certain #dangers #itself #learn

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#blind #consciousness #forces #himself #historic

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#automobile #begins #chain #country #distinction

As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself. ↗

— Rachel True

#also #as far as #balance #be true #between

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#i #itself #life #preferred #reflection