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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

Bertolt Brecht

The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food

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