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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Ezra Pound

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
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
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image

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