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Bertolt Brecht

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
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing

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