There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Life is short and so is money.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Realist 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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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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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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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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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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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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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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