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   What are 347 quotes from Bertolt Brecht?

   • 347 quotes from Bertolt Brecht: 'Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.', 'Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.', and 'The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.'

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   What are Brecht's most famous quotes?

   • Brecht was an iconoclast and is considered as one of the most significant theatre directors of the 20th century. Here are some of his most famous quotes. Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

   88 Famous quotes by Bertolt Brecht, the author of Life of Galileo

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   What does Bertolt Brecht say about his books?

   • There is a wonderful sentence, a statement, by one of Bertolt Brecht's characters, he says: "I am that man that goes around with a brick in his hand, to show the world how his house was." And that's the way I feel about my books in a way, that they are my bricks. I can show people what I believe my world was, so I've not lost it.

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   What did Bertolt Brecht believe?

   • Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was a famous German playwright, poet and stage director. Using his “defamiliarization effect” or “distancing effect”, he believed that theater is supposed to be a representation of reality and not reality itself, a fact that was apparent in his “epic theater” techniques.

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   • “Art is not a mirror held up to reality. but a hammer with which to shape it.” ― Bertolt Brecht.
   • “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.” ― Bertolt Brecht.
   • “The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”
   • “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions.

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   Feb 10, 2018 · Bertolt Brecht. Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science. Bertolt Brecht. What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. Bertolt Brecht. Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht. Everyone needs help from everyone.

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   People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

   But something's missing (Aber etwas fehlt).

   A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

   The theater-goer in conventional dramatic theater says: Yes, I've felt that way, too. That's the way I am. That's life. That's the way it will always be. The suffering of this or that person grips...

   Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

   The main objective is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the great one’s thinking.

   Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise condi...

   Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.

   Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not Always spoken the truth in my books? And now You treat me like a liar! I order you: Burn me!

   Those who lead the country into the abyss Call ruling too difficult For ordinary men.

   Ah, what an age it is When to speak of trees is almost a crime For it is a kind of silence about injustice!

   To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

   Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

   Mitfühlend sehe ich Die geschwollenen Stirnadern, andeutend Wie anstrengend es ist, böse zu sein.

   It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experi...

   The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

   Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply d...

   Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles Are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, Let us demand the freedom of the elbow To knock the bottles out of thei...

   Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

   Engel verführt man gar nicht oder schnell. Verzieh ihn einfach in den Hauseingang Steck ihm die Zunge in den Mund und lang Ihm untern Rock, bis er sich naß macht, stell Ihm das Gesicht zur Wand, he...

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   Here are some of his most famous quotes. Listed In: Writers. Poets. Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. Bertolt Brecht. Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. Bertolt Brecht. The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses?

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   Learn about the life and works of Bertolt Brecht, a famous German playwright, poet and stage director who used his "distancing effect" to create theater that represents reality and not reality itself. See 20 of his most famous quotes on topics such as death, war, knowledge, art and God.

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