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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

Bertolt Brecht

I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
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
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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

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