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Ezra Pound : Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. #Writers and Writing

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Mario Puzo: "Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly." #Writers and Writing

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Ezra Pound: "Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear." #Writers and Writing

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June Jordan: "As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America." #Writers and Writing

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Aubrey Beardsley: "No language is rude that can boast polite writers." #Writers and Writing

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Sir Humphrey Davy: "Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking." #Writers and Writing

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Raymond Chandler: "It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay." #Writers and Writing

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Russell (Wayne) Baker: "Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used." #Writers and Writing

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Willa Cather: "The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech — it is a gift from heart to heart." #Writers and Writing

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William Cobbett: "It is especially his bad language that is always good. It is precisely the passages that have always been recognized as good style that would now be regarded as bad form. And it is precisely these violent passages that especially bring out not only the best capacities of Cobbett but also the best capacities of English." #Writers and Writing

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Victor Hugo: "To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost --that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization --is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization." #Writers and Writing

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Ezra Pound: "Literature is news that stays news." #Literature

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Ezra Pound: "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding." #Education

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Ezra Pound: "A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." #Freedom

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Ezra Pound: "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." #Books - Reading

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Ezra Pound: "In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries." #Economy and Economics

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Ezra Pound: "Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market." #Writers and Writing

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Ezra Pound: "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." #Action

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Ezra Pound: "There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed." #Death and Dying

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Ezra Pound: "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." #Despair

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Ezra Pound: "I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion." #Exile

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