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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

Bertolt Brecht

Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
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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Desire Reality Understanding
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
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People

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