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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

Bertolt Brecht

You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
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
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
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World

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