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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
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
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist

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