If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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