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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Ezra Pound

All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
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
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
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
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
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 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

With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.

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