Ezra Pound Quotes
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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I'd love to do something at Marvel, but I don't think I would do a seven-movie deal. That's a bit too much for me.
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I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.
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Kudos to people who put themselves forward as the arbiters of taste.
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My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.
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Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard.
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Democracy fascinates me.
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I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.
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Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
