Bertolt Brecht Quotes
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
Brecht, Bertolt. The Threepenny Opera. Translated by Ralph Manheim and John Willett, Arcade Publishing, 1994.
This is one of the proverbs of King Solomon of the Jews, son of King David.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the so-called V-effect.
