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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
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
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two

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