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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

The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
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
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding

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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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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