What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
BERTOLT BRECHTRecently 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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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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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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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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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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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Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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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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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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