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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

Bertolt Brecht

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
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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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Art Discovery Reality
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
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
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
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

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