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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

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
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light

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