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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.

Bertolt Brecht

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
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
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
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
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short

If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.

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