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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

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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Desire Reality Understanding
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
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
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
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
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
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn

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