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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Bertolt Brecht

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
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
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
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
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste

People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

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