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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

Bertolt Brecht

It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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
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
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise

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