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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.

Bertolt Brecht

What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
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
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
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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

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