Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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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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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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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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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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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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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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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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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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