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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Ezra Pound

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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret 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
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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

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