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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
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
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
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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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public

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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