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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

Ezra Pound

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
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
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value

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