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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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

— Ezra Pound

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline. ↗

— Kelly Preston

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