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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Ezra Pound

The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner

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