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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

Bertolt Brecht

The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
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
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
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
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet

I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

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