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Boy Meets Girl, So What?

Bertolt Brecht

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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
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
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels

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