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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.

Bertolt Brecht

Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing

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