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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
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
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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
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
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

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