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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.

Bertolt Brecht

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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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Order Reality Tables
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork

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