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You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't. ↗

— Asafa Powell

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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All great art is born of the metropolis. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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