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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.

Bertolt Brecht

If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Life is short and so is money.
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Cute Life Money Short
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Confusion Humanity Nature
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
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
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
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

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