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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

Bertolt Brecht

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
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
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence

You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

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