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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.

Bertolt Brecht

You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
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Doe Hurt Scar
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
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
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
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
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Declaring Running War
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
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 is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak

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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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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