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

Bertolt Brecht

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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible

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