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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
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
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible

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