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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Ezra Pound

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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
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
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
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
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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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Cancer Life World
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
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

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