Ezra Pound Quotes
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I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
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I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.
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In every study we've done, fuel cells surface as the most promising long-term pathway for the industry -- even if you use fossil fuels, like natural gas, as the source of hydrogen.
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Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
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Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.
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One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. . . . He is beyond human forgiveness.
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He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.
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Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
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I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.
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You think of rock ‘n’ roll and you think of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, You think of tons of strippers and mounds of cocaine and people destroying hotel rooms and stuff like that. But none of that happens with us. At least not yet, We’ve destroyed dressing rooms…but it was with fruit.
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Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.
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The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
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The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.