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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?

Bertolt Brecht

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
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
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
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
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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