All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Life is short and so is money.
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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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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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The fate of man is man.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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