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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.

Bertolt Brecht

For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn

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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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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