When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
Every great change is simple.
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.
Rhythm is form cut into time.
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
The what is so much more important than how.
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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