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

Bertolt Brecht

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
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
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service

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