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Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.

Bertolt Brecht

From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
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
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song

Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.

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