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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

Ezra Pound

The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
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
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
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

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

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