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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
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
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
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

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