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No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
Autobiographer
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
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Sin
Stale
Paper
Dry
Nature
Sell
Ever
Sells
Live
Quickly
Made
Bread
Endure
Picture
Rags

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