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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Bertolt Brecht

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
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
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
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
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
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

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

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