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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Bertolt Brecht

For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
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
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
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
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
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding

I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

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