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BERTOLT BRECHTThere 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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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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But something’s missing.
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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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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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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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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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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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