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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

Bertolt Brecht

People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
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
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
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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Bird Perspective Squirrels

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

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