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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

Bertolt Brecht

Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
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
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race

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