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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Bertolt Brecht

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
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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