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Ezra Pound

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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
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
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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 man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
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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Better Finding Mental Myself
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question

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