Too few is as many as too many.
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.
[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.
To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they know that eighty percent of them are not going to succeed more than to just keep going and why if they are not why do they not keep on being interested in the things that interested them when they were college men and why American men different from English men do not get more interesting as they get older.
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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