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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.

Bertolt Brecht

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
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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Desire Reality Understanding
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
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
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
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
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life

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