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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
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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About Country Live Place
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

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