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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

Bertolt Brecht

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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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Light Planning Shining
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows

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