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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Ezra Pound

Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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

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