Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.
Quotes By Terry Eagleton
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of...
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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals a...
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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few...
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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts and students grow more...
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject...
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With fiction you can talk about plot character and narrative whereas a...
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Irish fiction is full of secrets guilty pasts divided identities. It is no...
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It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from...
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The study of history and philosophy accompanied by some acquaintance with...
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If history philosophy and so on vanish from academic life what they leave...
Quotes About Imagination
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic not a way of leaving reality...
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With the brush we merely tint while the imagination alone produces colour.
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Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Sometimes surely truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence to love...
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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character...
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I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer...
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the...