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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
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
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Faces Firsts Talk

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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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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