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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

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
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
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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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth

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