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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

Bertolt Brecht

People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

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