"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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Source : "Essays on the Art of Theater". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1954.

Bertolt Brecht

#Art Quotes #Reality Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses”
“I love a lot of comedy movies. I think I fell in love with comedy when I was younger. My brother and I would always sit down and watch some of the classics. Bottle Rocket is one of my favorite comedies.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here.”
“Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.”
“Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.”
“Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.”

Source : Sharon M. Draper (2006). “Tears of a Tiger”, p.40, Simon and Schuster
“The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society”
“it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.806, Xist Publishing

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