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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war

Bertolt Brecht

Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
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’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Errors Science Wisdom
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs

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