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Bertolt Brecht

Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
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
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.

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