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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

Bertolt Brecht

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time

Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

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