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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.

Ezra Pound

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.

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