Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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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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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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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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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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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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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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