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Bertolt Brecht

Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
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
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
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
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
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
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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

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