When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Why be a man when you can be a success?
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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. …
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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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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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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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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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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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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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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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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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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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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