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Ezra Pound

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 man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process 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
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
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
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory

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