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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.

Bertolt Brecht

Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
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
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food

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