I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
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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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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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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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Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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