A theater without beer is just a museum
BERTOLT BRECHT…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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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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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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