The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
EZRA POUNDAll great art is born of the metropolis.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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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.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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