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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying

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