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Ezra Pound

Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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
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

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