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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place

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