Quote by Ernst Fischer
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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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If you cant pay for a thing, dont buy it. If you cant get paid for it, dont sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, dont wait for time. – Ernst Fischer

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Business
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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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Dreams
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It is all nonsense, to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams – not by any means of all dreams – moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis. – Arthur Machen

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Dreams

I love watching peoples dreams come true. – Jessica Simpson

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Dreams

Theres a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you dont know what Im dreaming. – Carrie Fisher

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Dreams

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. – Mick Jagger

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Dreams

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We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it. – Rosie ODonnell

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To get a childs trust – you may know or not – is a very hard thing to do. Theyre so used to not believing adults – because adults tell tales and lies all the time. – Maurice Sendak

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Trust

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. – Lord Dunsany

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Labor is mans greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working. – Orville Dewey

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