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

Bertolt Brecht

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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
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
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
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

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