It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
BERTOLT BRECHTDon’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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A theater without beer is just a museum
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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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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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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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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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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Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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