I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
BERTOLT BRECHTIf you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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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 mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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One must live well to know what living is.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Everyone needs help from everyone.
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