When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt 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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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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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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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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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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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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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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