Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
BERTOLT BRECHTPoverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Life is short and so is money.
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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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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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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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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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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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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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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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