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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

Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
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
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
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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
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
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
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
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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Light Planning Shining
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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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land

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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