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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

Bertolt Brecht

Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
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
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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

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