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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

Bertolt Brecht

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
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

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