Ezra Pound Quotes
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
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The walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight.
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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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Will somebody hold me?
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You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.
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I was the kid who would take the car out at night when he was 16 and see if he can redline it. And then there's the kid who will be careful of it because it's his dad's car, or whatever, and drive it safely home and go to bed. And that's how my whole life was.
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Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!
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I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.
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The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
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Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.
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Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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