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Up Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
- It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
- There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
- 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…
- Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
- Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
- The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when…
- When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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