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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?

Bertolt Brecht

The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
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
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong

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