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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.

Bertolt Brecht

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs

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