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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

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
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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Men Show Traded
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom

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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