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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

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
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
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
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
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
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater

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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