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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

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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Art Discovery Reality
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
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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
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
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
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress

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