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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

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
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
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
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
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

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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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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