The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.Ezra Pound
Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as 'addled mosses dank'), no Tennysonianness of speech nothingnothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.
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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
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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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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''
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