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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

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
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
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War

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