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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

Bertolt Brecht

What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
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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People Today World
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
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
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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Crazy Literature Teacher
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows

Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

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