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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Bertolt Brecht

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
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
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
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.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
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
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
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

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