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

Bertolt Brecht

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
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
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons

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

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