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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
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
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
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
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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

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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