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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
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
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

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