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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.

Bertolt Brecht

People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
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 a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.

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