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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

Bertolt Brecht

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
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
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors

I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

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