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Ezra Pound has 179 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilĂ une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why…
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a…
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for…
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes,…
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a…
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself…
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
— Fred Allen
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Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to…
— Max Beerbohm
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Don't like small talk, love rainy days.
— Melissa Gilbert
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In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute…
— Robert Adams
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Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate…
— Laurie Helgoe
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During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked…
— Kate Millett
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The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar,…
— Peter Hessler
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I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk.
— Larry David
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Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk.
— Croft M. Pentz
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Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and…
— Yxta Maya Murray
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