Quote by Ezra Pound
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of li

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. – Ezra Pound

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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. – Ezra Pound

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Heresy
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. – Ezra Pound

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Art
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – Ezra Pound

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Change
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If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isnt it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? – Gloria Steinem

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Men

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Men

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. – Susan B. Anthony

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Men

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are. – Cesar Chavez

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Men

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Yeah, Ive worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that theyre amazing. As good or better than guy directors. – Alia Shawkat

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Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively. – Josie Maran

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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. – Woody Allen

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The stormy life can be braved only by the heart’s sunny meditations. – Sri Chinmoy

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