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Small talk comes from small bones.

Ezra Pound

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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
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
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
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work

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