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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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
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
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
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing

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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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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