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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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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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Ernst Fischer
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Dreams
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I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale. – Alison Krauss

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Dreams

Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, If you have a dream, chase it. – Karl Malone

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Dreams

Dreams are a scientific fact. – Robyn Hitchcock

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Dreams

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to ones rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. – Georges Bataille

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Dreams

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Thats the thing about interviews, at some point youre going to change your mind. But its there forever and you cant escape it. – Martha Plimpton

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The monster of advertisement…is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat… – Sarah Bernhardt

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