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Ezra Pound

Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work

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