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

Bertolt Brecht

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
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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May Philosophy Waiting
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Anticipation Death Life
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

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