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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

Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs

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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