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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
Explore more quotes by Ezra Pound
"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."
"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."
"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
"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."
"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."
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