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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Bertolt Brecht

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
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
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
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
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
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
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning

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