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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
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
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
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
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns

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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