Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
BERTOLT BRECHTArt is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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The fate of man is man.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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