War is like love, it always finds a way.
BERTOLT BRECHTUnhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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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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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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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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