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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
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
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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters

I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

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