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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Bertolt Brecht

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
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
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak

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