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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Bertolt Brecht

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
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom

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