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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

Bertolt Brecht

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
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
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
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
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak

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