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People who understand everything get no stories.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
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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About Country Live Place
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song

People who understand everything get no stories.

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