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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.

Bertolt Brecht

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time

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