For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
BERTOLT BRECHTI Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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First the grub, then the morals.
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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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I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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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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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Life is short and so is money.
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Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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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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