It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
BERTOLT BRECHTYou can make a fresh start with your final breath.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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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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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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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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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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