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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

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test

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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