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

Bertolt Brecht

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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Men Show Traded
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
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
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

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