Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
BERTOLT BRECHT…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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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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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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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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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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