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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.

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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work

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