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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work

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