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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

Bertolt Brecht

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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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Order Reality Tables
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
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

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

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