Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
BERTOLT BRECHTTo live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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First the grub, then the morals.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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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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Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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People who understand everything get no stories.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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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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He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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