I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Either move or be moved.
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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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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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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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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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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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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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