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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Bertolt Brecht

One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken 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
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

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