The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
BERTOLT BRECHTLiterary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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