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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.

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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
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
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
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
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View

To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.

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