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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.

Bertolt Brecht

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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
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
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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 theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.

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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.

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