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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?

Bertolt Brecht

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
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
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat

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