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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

Ezra Pound

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

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