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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

Bertolt Brecht

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
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
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay

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