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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

Bertolt Brecht

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

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