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People who understand everything get no stories.

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
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
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 is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns

People who understand everything get no stories.

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