"[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands."

-- Lotte Lenya

#Hands Quotes #Sensitive Quotes #Brecht Quotes

“I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.”
“There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.”

Source : Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.
“For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.”
“[Angels] aid us in our personal mission. We have to learn to listen, for if we block the angels out, they become only the fairy beings of dreams and pleasant stories.”
“There is life or death in words.”
“I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!”
“If you have an idea that seems worth doing, don't wait to hire other people and get funding and all those things. Just start doing it, wait to see what happens, and then iterate on that.”

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