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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Bertolt Brecht

The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
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
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War

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