From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
BERTOLT BRECHTFrom the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
BERTOLT BRECHTSin 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTArt is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhen the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
BERTOLT BRECHTHungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
BERTOLT BRECHTUnhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
BERTOLT BRECHTFor the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
BERTOLT BRECHTPeople are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
BERTOLT BRECHTAll artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
BERTOLT BRECHTImpact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
BERTOLT BRECHTI opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhat a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
BERTOLT BRECHTWhenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
BERTOLT BRECHTSome party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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