Quote by Terry Eagleton
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic. – Terry Eagleton

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The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith. – Terry Eagleton

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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. – Terry Eagleton

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I guess Im a very keen observer, and Id like to think I have a good imagination. – Eric Bana

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. – Alfred North Whitehead

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