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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 is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process

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