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

Bertolt Brecht

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
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
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
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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

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

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