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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

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
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
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs

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