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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.

Bertolt Brecht

Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
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
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.

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