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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.

Bertolt Brecht

People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing

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