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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Bertolt Brecht

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
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
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May

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