Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
BERTOLT BRECHT…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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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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Life is short and so is money.
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