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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
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
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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
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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Kind Silence Tree
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
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
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
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

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