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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.

Bertolt Brecht

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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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

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