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A theater without beer is just a museum

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
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
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
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
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
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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing

A theater without beer is just a museum

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