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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.

Ezra Pound

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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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 artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right

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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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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