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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

Bertolt Brecht

Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
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
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

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