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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.
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is... →
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going... →
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean... →
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... →
Wars are made to make debt.
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at... →
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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