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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. 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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Those who are weak don't fight.
Those who are stronger might fight
for an hour.
Those who are stronger still might fight
for many years.
The strongest fight
their whole life.
They are the indispensable ones.
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How long Do works endure? As long As they are not completed.
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From the cradle to the grave, underwear first, last and all the time.
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Mr. Wurlitzer, I am now in a position to receive your organ.
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What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank?
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For the task assigned them
Men aren't smart enough or sly
Any rogue can blind them
With a clever lie.
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The law is simply and solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it or of those who, for naked need, cannot obey it.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences.... In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Father says theologians have their bells to ring: physicists have their laughter.
Virginia speaking
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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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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The more we can squeeze out of nature by inventions and discoveries and improved organization of labour, the more uncertain our existence seems to be. It's not we who lord it over things, it seems, but things which lord it over us.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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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.
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Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.
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BELLARMIN: Wouldn't you also think it possible that the Creator had a better idea of what he was making than those he has created?
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GALILEO:...Knowledge will become a passion and research an ecstasy.
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SAGREDO [reluctant to go to the telescope]: I feel something not all that remote from fear, Galileo.
GALILEO: I'm about to show you one of the shining milkwhite clouds in the Milky Way. Tell me what it's made up of.
SAGREDO: Those are stars, innumerable stars.
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GALILEO: Truth is born of the times, not of authority. Our ignorance is limitless: let us lop one cubic millimeter off it. Why try to be clever now that we at last have a chance of being just a little less stupid?
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Born:
February 10, 1898
Died:
August 14, 1956
(aged 58)
Bio:
Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century.
Known for:
The Threepenny Opera (1955)
Mother Courage and Her Children (1941)
The Good Person of Szechwan (1943)
Life of Galileo (1940)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1948)
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