People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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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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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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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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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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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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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Life is short and so is money.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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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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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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