All great art is born of the metropolis. - Ezra Pound

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There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself.

Ezra Pound

All great art is born of the metropolis.

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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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I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.

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I was very proud and grateful to be the first African-American woman in the position. I thought it said a lot about our country that we had back-to-back African-American Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and then me. I also thought it said a lot about President Bush that he didn't see limits on the highest ranking diplomat in terms of color. It's a hard job, but really the best one in government.

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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.

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