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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.

Ezra Pound

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
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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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay

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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