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To put up a show is to face lifes injustices with one of the few w

To put up a show is to face lifes injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. – Luigi Barzini

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Foreign diplomats in Rome disconsolately say, Italy is the opposite of Russia. In Moscow nothing is known, yet everything is clear. In Rome everything is public, there are no secrets, everybody talks, things are at times flamboyantly enacted, yet one understands nothing. – Luigi Barzini

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Diplomacy
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Luigi Barzini
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I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the worlds cuisines, past and present, was available on request. – Luigi Barzini

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Libraries
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Luigi Barzini
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Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleasurably aloud about the pleasures of life. They have humanity rather than humour, and the real significance of the distinction is seldom understood. – Luigi Barzini

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Humanity
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Luigi Barzini
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Imagination
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It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas. – Kevin J. Anderson

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Imagination

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

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Imagination

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Imagination

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. – George Henry Lewes

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Imagination

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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods – Hannah Arendt

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People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think Im as sane as anyone whos done what Ive done in movies can be. – Philip Seymour Hoffman

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What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron ONeal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw The Negro get one over on The Man. – Samuel L. Jackson

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movies