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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

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
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
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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

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