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It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#beings #feel #half #human #human beings

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#beginnings #come #constitutes #contending #deeply

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#bad #create #creates #done #fester

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

#any #book #books #certain #contents

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#between #bore #distinguish #find #ideas

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#bell #implies #interference #other #people

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#committed #had #i #latin #long

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#inferior #say #sincerity #technique #test

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artists #called #craft #does #gods

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#death #feeling #just #out #sin