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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Bertolt Brecht

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
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
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil

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