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

Bertolt Brecht

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
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
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking

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