Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
BERTOLT BRECHTWe need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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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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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Grub first, then ethics.
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War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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