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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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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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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I don’t consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don’t have the same references that I do. To me it’s very beautiful and it’s art, and to them it’s outrageous and crazy.
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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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At the end of the day, if people find me scary, fuck 'em.
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The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I was the typical, still am to some extent, impecunious writer, just struggling to make ends meet, so that, nobody's going to deny that at all. In fact, if they want to give it to me a second time, I'm standing by, ready to receive it, but it's a problem, it's a real problem and then expectations and then you have monsters like Sani Abacha who come up from time to time and who would have died a happy man if he'd succeeded in hanging a Nobel Laureate for literature.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
