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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Ezra Pound

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
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 worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
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
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
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
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave

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