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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

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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Desire Reality Understanding
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
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
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
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

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