Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
BERTOLT BRECHTEven hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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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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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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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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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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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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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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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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Life is short and so is money.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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