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

Bertolt Brecht

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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 also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste

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