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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.

Bertolt Brecht

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
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying

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