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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.

Bertolt Brecht

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
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
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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Able Strong Theatre
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence

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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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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