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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

Bertolt Brecht

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
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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Features Hatred
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
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
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
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
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
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

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