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Life is short and so is money.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
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

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