Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
BERTOLT BRECHTI’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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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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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Life is short and so is money.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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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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