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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
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
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning

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