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Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.
Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.
My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be
He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.
Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.
Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.
My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.
A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.
Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.
But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.
Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.
You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!