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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.

Bertolt Brecht

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
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
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
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
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
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support

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