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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

What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
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
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
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
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
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
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
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
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
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
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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Bills Hotel Pay
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing

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