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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.

Bertolt Brecht

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
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 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
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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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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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