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Ezra Pound

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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 real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown

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