Ezra Pound Quotes
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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Read books. They are good for us.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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The issue Israeli-Palestinian conflict, already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.
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Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.
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Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.
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Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.
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Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.
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The only reason to do this job is because I love playing my music. And I love my bandmates.
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You learn a lot about people when you're sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.
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I don't need fighting. It's the cherry on top to this beautiful life I've been given.
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I've done a lot of work to get where I'm at, but I have to keep working.
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Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
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You had to be tough in our neighborhood.
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Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.
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I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.
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It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
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Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
