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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

Ezra Pound

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

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