Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
BERTOLT BRECHTGeneral, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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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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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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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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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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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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