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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Ezra Pound

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
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
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

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