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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Bertolt Brecht

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
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
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
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

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

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