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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.

Bertolt Brecht

People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
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 must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
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

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