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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.

Bertolt Brecht

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.

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