Quotes by Brecht, Bertolt

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. >>

For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by >>

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? >>

Quotations about Reality

Realists do not fear the results of their study. >>

The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. >>

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny th >>

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 conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Brecht, Bertolt