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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness

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