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Bertolt Brecht

In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
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

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