If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHTRecently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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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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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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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.
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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