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First the grub, then the morals.

Bertolt Brecht

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
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
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports

First the grub, then the morals.

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