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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.

Ezra Pound

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
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
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing

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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