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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
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
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
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
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel

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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