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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.

Bertolt Brecht

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
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
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise

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