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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
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
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports

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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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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