"Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great."

-- Ezra Pound

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“Atlantis will rise again.”
“The external part of religion is doubtless of little value in comparison with the internal, and so is the cask in comparison with the wine contained in it: but if the cask be staved in, the wine must perish.”
“All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out Â£17 for economical?”

Source : Interview in the Daily Telegraph, April 2003.
“The world is an orphanage for grownups”
“Putin is just maneuvering. He wants to be respected. He wants to be an important player in global politics. He wants people to negotiate with him and he wants to have the trade-offs here and there and spheres of influence. He's very much a person of the 20th century in the global and geopolitical space.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“Jake Robert's wife is real ugly, but according to him that's nothing a six pack and a light switch can't fix.”
“Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.”
“I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write a book or novella for them. Things change. A rejection slip today might mean a frantic call to your agent in six months.”

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