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“If we could learn to look instead of gawking,
We'd see the horror in the heart of farce,
If only we could act instead of talking,
We wouldn't always end up on our arse.
This was the thing that nearly had us mastered;
Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men!
Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard,
The bitch that bore him is in heat again.”
― Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

“What are you working on?” Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: “I’m having a hard time; I’m preparing my next mistake.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Stories of Mr. Keuner

“I had no right telling you how you should feel. No right claiming knowledge on things I could and will never feel. I've never known harm or exile because of my skin. Nor felt the lash of leather whips or angry tongues because of it.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

“Carole is cutting in on my conversation with Judy, yammering on about how hydration and sleep are two of the three pillars of weight loss. No one wants to admit that starvation is the third.”
― Alli Frank, Never Meant to Meet You