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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Bertolt Brecht

The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
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
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom

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