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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
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
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog

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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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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