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

Bertolt Brecht

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
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
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
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
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational

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