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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Bertolt Brecht

Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
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
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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War

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