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

Ezra Pound

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
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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