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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

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word

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