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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

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
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
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste

Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

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