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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

Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
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 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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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
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
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

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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