Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
BERTOLT BRECHTLiterary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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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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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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The fate of man is man.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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The 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.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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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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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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