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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Ezra Pound

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth

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