A theater without beer is just a museum
BERTOLT BRECHTRealist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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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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