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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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Light, Shining, Planning

  Bertolt Brecht, Desmond Ivo Vesey, Eric Bentley (1964). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.75, Grove Press

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• I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Writing, Clothes, Feelings

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• Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Important, Would Be, Easy

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.41, Taylor & Francis

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• What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Joy, Nightmare

  Bertolt Brecht (1965). “The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays”, p.158, Grove Press

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• What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Banking, Breaking Silence, Literature

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 2: Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins”, p.204, A&C Black

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• Young Alexander conquered India.
  He alone?
  Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army?
  Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears?
  Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who
  Triumphed with him?

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Army, Years

  Bertolt Brecht, “A Worker Reads History”

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• There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Stupidity, Latter, Workers

  Bertolt Brecht (1964). “Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht”

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• Life is short and so is money.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Cute, Life Is Short, Life Is

  Bertolt Brecht, Desmond Ivo Vesey, Eric Bentley (1964). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.85, Grove Press

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• It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Travel, Literature, Ifs

  Bertolt Brecht (1961). “Parables for the theatre: Two plays: The good woman of Setzuan and The caucasian chalk circle”

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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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, People, Acting

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Thinking, Defects

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.289, Taylor & Francis

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• Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Love, Art, Giving

  Bertolt Brecht, Martin Chalmers (2001). “Stories of Mr. Keuner”, p.73, City Lights Books

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• Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Scholarship, Turns

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Life Of Galileo”, p.55, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Wise, Poverty, Wells

  Bertolt Brecht (1962). “Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo”

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• Temptation to behave is terrible.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Temptation, Literature, Terrible

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• If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Mirrors, Special

  "A Short Organum for the Theatre". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1949.

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• The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Finest, Spoiled, Should

  Bertolt Brecht (1963). “Plays”

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• Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly

  Bertolt Brecht

  Dog, Morning, Book

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• From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fun, People, Theatre

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• For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. 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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Reality, Order, Tables

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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.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Majority, Purpose, Shoulders

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.235, Taylor & Francis

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• For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Running, Men, World

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• ...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Simplicity, Difficult, Software Design

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• Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fashion, Art, Mean

  "A Short Organum for the Theatre". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1949.

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• The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Finest, Emperor, Ruined

  'Mutter Courage' (1939) sc. 6

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