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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

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
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
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
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust

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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