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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Bertolt Brecht

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns

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