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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.

Bertolt Brecht

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
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
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
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
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear

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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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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