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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.

Bertolt Brecht

One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
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
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
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
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying

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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