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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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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Crush Men Powerful
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War

What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.

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