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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

Ezra Pound

All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
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
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
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
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
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

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