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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon

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