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

Bertolt Brecht

Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
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
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too

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