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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Bertolt Brecht

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
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
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
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
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck

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