People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
BERTOLT BRECHTOne 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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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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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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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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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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