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“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
                    but then he’s still left
with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
                                                                        but then he’s still left with his hands.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?”
― Bertolt Brecht

“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
― Richard Siken, Crush