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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
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
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart

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