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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Bertolt Brecht

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
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
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
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
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

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