Quote by Lionel Trilling
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. – Lionel Trilling

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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. – Lionel Trilling

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Equality
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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. – Lionel Trilling

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legal
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I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? Whats a soul? Whats it all about? What is thinking about, imagination? – Jane Campion

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My identity is linked to my grandmother, whos pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So thats how I identify. – Jessica Hagedorn

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Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play. – Henri Matisse

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My books are elegiac in the sense that theyre odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination. – Richard Russo

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Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse

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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. – William Dean Howells

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Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine. – Paul Wellstone

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A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. – Mother Teresa

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