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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch

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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