Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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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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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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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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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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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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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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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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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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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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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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