What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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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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One 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.
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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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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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But something’s missing.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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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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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.
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