A heroic figure: not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
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Quotes by Ezra Pound (Ezra Weston Loomis Pound)
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.
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Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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