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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

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
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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Dammed Easy Important
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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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Crush Men Powerful
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

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