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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
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
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People

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