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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Bertolt Brecht

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
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
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
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
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
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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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Desire Reality Understanding

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

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