Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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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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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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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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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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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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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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