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

Bertolt Brecht

The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
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
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand

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