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Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
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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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
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
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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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Art Discovery Reality
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters

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