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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

Ezra Pound

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
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
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
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
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known

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