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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
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself

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