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

Bertolt Brecht

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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
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
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress

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

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