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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Bertolt Brecht

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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
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
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

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