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People who understand everything get no stories.

Bertolt Brecht

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
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
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
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
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
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
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song

People who understand everything get no stories.

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