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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.

Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles

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