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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.

Bertolt Brecht

I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
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
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
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
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs

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