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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

Bertolt Brecht

You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.

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