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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

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
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
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
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
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
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
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
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational

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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