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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.

Bertolt Brecht

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
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
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
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
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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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Art Discovery Reality
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet

From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.

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