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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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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – 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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Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. – LeVar Burton

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Imagination

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. Youre constantly depicting something that doesnt exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees. – Ron Perlman

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Imagination

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. – Carl Clinton Van Doren

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The public has an appetite for anything about imagination – anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. – Steven Spielberg

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