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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Bertolt Brecht

The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
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Feelings Historical Theatre
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place

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