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

Bertolt Brecht

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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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Confusion Humanity Nature
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
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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Block Book Kings
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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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Fall Men Tiles
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
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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Knives Order Sweat
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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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Condition Example Made Realist

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