First the grub, then the morals.
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More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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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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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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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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Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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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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