The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
BERTOLT BRECHTLiterary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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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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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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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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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Eats first, morals after.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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