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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
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
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

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