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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Ezra Pound

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay

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