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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

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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Art Discovery Reality
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
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
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short

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