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Boy Meets Girl, So What?

Bertolt Brecht

The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
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
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
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
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense

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