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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Ezra Pound

Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
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
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
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
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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

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