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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

Ezra Pound

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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
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
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
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
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way

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