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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

Ezra Pound

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
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
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
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
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas

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