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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.

Bertolt Brecht

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
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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
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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Change Nothing Reality Representation
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
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
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
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
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

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