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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
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
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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

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