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

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Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.99, New York Review of Books

Lionel Trilling

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“What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.”

Source : Elia Kazan, William Baer (2000). “Elia Kazan: Interviews”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot.”
“I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the ways in which traditionally men would. I often find that my points of view are expressed by male characters.”

Source : "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Danae Elon – ‘P.S. Jerusalem’". Interview with Freja Dam, www.indiewire.com. September 11, 2015.
“Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.”
“If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.”
“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.”
“If youre following your dreams, youre doing something you love and that you believe in yourself for.”
“The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.”

Source : Michael Stean (2013). “Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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