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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.

Bertolt Brecht

You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying

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