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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

Ezra Pound

Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
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
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
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
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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

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