The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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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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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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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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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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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Eats first, morals after.
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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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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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