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Technique is the test of sincerity.

Ezra Pound

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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself

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