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In the contradiction lies the hope.

Bertolt Brecht

Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
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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Art Discovery Reality
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
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear

In the contradiction lies the hope.

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