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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

First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
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
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay

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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