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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has becom

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. – Ernst Fischer

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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. – Ernst Fischer

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Tragedy
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Ernst Fischer
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. – Ernst Fischer

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Art
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, dont they? – Manuel Puig

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Dreams

Its not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU. – Christine Taylor

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Dreams

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. – Ashleigh Brilliant

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Dreams

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. – Margaret Fuller

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Dreams

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Anger is one letter short of danger. – Author Unknown

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