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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

Bertolt Brecht

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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
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
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
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
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels

Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.

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