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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.

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
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
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
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding

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