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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

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
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
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
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
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
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
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing

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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