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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Bertolt Brecht

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
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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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Belief Men Running
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
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
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence

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