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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.

Bertolt Brecht

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
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
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
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
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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Desire Reality Understanding
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
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

If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.

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