Ezra Pound Quotes
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
