Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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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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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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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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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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