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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Ezra Pound

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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

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