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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

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
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
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
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
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
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
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
…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
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing

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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