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

Bertolt Brecht

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
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
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
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
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor

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