When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
BERTOLT BRECHTThe 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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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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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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If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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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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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Only bad generals need heroes.
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I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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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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General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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