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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life

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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