I Became a Blogger Because I Wanted To Write Sentences Like

...like: "I became a critic because I wanted to write sentences like

'This intense conviction of the existence of the self part from culture is, as culture well knows, its noblest and most generous achievement.'"

...That's Louis Menand, offering restrained admiration of Lionel Trilling, in "A Critic At Large: Regrets Only," New Yorker, ept 29, 2008, 80-90, 90.