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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

Bertolt Brecht

For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice

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