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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

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
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
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
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 never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Fall Heaven Snow
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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong

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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