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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

Bertolt Brecht

Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
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
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

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