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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

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
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
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

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

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