Ezra Pound Quotes
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The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.
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My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.
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When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.
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The picture of me as a child is that I was always with a ball - that's why I was so skinny: I would miss dinner. Mum would have to leave me some food in the microwave.
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We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.
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All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.
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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
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The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.
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I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.
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The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.
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Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.
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To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'
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I always begin to compose the melody first.
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Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with cyber crime and shower sex.
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All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen.
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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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I miss Bettie Page. I've been missing her since the last time I photographed her in 1954.
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Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
