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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.

Bertolt Brecht

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start

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