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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

Bertolt Brecht

From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
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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Acting Men People
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
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
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
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

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