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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
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
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

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