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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.

Ezra Pound

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light

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