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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Humor
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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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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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I think if youre a competent actor with a good imagination, and if its on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. – Miguel Ferrer

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Well, Im not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself. – Rashida Jones

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Imagination

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action. – James Broughton

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Imagination

If we divine a discrepancy between a mans words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. – Charles Horton Cooley

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My father-in-law gets up at 5 oclock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I dont know why theres this big rush to do this. – Jeff Foxworthy

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