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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Bertolt Brecht

If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
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 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
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
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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

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