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Ezra Pound

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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
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
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
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
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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

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