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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

Bertolt Brecht

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
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
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
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
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People

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