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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
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
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying

I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

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