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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

Bertolt Brecht

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
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 first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
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
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
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
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
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

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