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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Bertolt Brecht

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
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
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
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
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

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