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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
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
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind

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