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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
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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Fall Rain Summer
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons

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