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

Bertolt Brecht

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
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
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

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