For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen 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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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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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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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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