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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Bertolt Brecht

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking

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