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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

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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Dwelling Object People Tool
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
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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Desire Reality Understanding
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality

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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