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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.

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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
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
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
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
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste

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