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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.

Bertolt Brecht

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
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
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
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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Finest Spoil
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land

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