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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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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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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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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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.
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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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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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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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