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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
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 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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation

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