“It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.”
Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) American academic
"The Novel Alive or Dead," A Gathering of Fugitives: New Essays (1956)
“It now requires such artful speculation to maintain an orthodox faith in chance. Skeptics, it would seem, are willing to believe anything.”
Source: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community
Context: Or perhaps... there is actually an infinity of universes among which only this one has by sheer accident produced the conditions for life and mind. It now requires such artful speculation to maintain an orthodox faith in chance. Skeptics, it would seem, are willing to believe anything.
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