No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell … - Ezra Pound

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Non-violence. . . is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

Ezra Pound

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

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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 certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron. . . . I should have been able to do better.

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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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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

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