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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Bertolt Brecht

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
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
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
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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
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
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying

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