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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Bertolt Brecht

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
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
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
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

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.

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