From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
BERTOLT BRECHTIt 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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Life is short and so is money.
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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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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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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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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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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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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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