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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Bertolt Brecht

You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
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
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

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