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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.

Bertolt Brecht

Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
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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Fall Rain Summer
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral

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