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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.

Bertolt Brecht

People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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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Fall Men Tiles
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something

From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.

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