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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Bertolt Brecht

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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre

…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

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