What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
BERTOLT BRECHTAll artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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When you name yourself, you always name another.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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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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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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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 headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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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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