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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Ezra Pound

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
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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

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