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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

Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
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
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men 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
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
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
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
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality

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