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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

Bertolt Brecht

Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
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
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
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
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
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.

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