Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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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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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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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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