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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

Bertolt Brecht

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People

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