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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Ezra Pound

Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
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
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
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
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 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
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
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
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
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
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

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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