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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.

Bertolt Brecht

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
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
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
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
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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

There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.

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