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Bertolt Brecht
(1898 - 1956 / Augsburg / Germany)
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30 poems of Bertolt Brecht
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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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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet. The sergeant, in Mother Courage and Her Children, sc. 1 (1939), trans. by Eric Bentley (1941).
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''Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.''
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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet. The Singer, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, prologue (1944).
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''For once you must try not to shirk the facts:
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.''
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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet. "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" Act 2, sc. 6, The Threepenny Opera.
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''Food first, then morality.''
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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet. "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" Act 2, sc. 6, The Threepenny Opera.
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''Science knows only one commandment—contribute to science.''
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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet. Andrea, in The Life of Galileo, sc. 14 (1939), trans. by Howard Brenton (1980).
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''Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.''
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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet. repr. In Brecht on Theatre, ed. and trans. by John Willett (1964). "A Short Organum for the Theatr...
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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 an...
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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet. repr. In Brecht on Theatre, ed. and trans. by John Willett (1964). "A Short Organum for the Theatr...
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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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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet. repr. in Brecht on Theatre, pt. 1, ed. and trans. by John Willett (1964). "Emphasis on Sport," Ber...
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''No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.''
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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet. First god, in The Good Woman of Setzuan, sc. 1a.
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''Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.''
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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet. Galileo, in Life of Galileo, sc. 13.
responding to Andrea's remark, "Unhappy the land that has...
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