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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

Ezra Pound

A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
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
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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 artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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 flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

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