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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
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
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble

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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