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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

Ezra Pound

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
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
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
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
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon

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