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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.
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As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
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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.
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I wish my deadly foe, no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
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Ernst Fischer
Born:
July 3, 1899
Died:
July 31, 1972
(aged 73)
Bio:
Ernst Fischer, also known under the pseudonyms: Ernst Peter Fischer, Peter Wieden, Pierre Vidal, and Der Miesmacher, was a Bohemian-born Austrian journalist, writer and politician.
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The necessity of art (1963)
How To Read Karl Marx
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