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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

If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
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
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
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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Clothes Feelings Writing
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality

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