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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

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
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
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
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
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog

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