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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 real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
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
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
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet

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