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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

Bertolt Brecht

Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
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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Men Show Traded
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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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Dammed Easy Important
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

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