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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Bertolt Brecht

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
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
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
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
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
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special

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