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

Bertolt Brecht

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
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
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 is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years

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