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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

Bertolt Brecht

It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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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Fall Heaven Snow
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
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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Condition Example Made Realist
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible

The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

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