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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

Bertolt Brecht

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

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