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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

Bertolt Brecht

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
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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Desire Reality Understanding
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
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
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows

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