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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

You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Leadership Numbers Two
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
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
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
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Kind Silence Tree
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
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
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
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
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Emperor Finest Ruined
Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process

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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