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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.

Bertolt Brecht

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
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
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
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
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing 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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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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