A theater without beer is just a museum
BERTOLT BRECHTRealist 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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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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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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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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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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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