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Top 10 Irving Howe Quotes (2025 Update)

Irving Howe Quote: “The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.”
Irving Howe Quote: “Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.”
Irving Howe Quote: “The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.”
Irving Howe Quote: “No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society.”
Irving Howe Quote: “The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy’s Complaint is to read it twice.”
Irving Howe Quote: “Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer’s claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.”
Irving Howe Quote: “Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.”
Irving Howe Quote: “Good readers make much out of little.”
Irving Howe Quote: “Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.”
Irving Howe Quote: “One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.”
Irving Howe Quote: “Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence.”
Irving Howe Quote: “Scholarship was, above all else, honored among the Jews – scholarship not as “pure” activity, not as intellectual release, but as the pathway, sometimes treacherous.”
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