But something’s missing.
BERTOLT BRECHTBecause things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Right is its own defense.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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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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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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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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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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