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Ezra Pound

"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."

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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."

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"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."

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"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."

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"In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves."

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"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."

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"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."

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"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."

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"On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor."

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"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."

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"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."

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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."

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