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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

Bertolt Brecht

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
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
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
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
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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