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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
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
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 is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
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
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted

I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

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