Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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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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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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