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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Bertolt Brecht

Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
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
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
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
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence

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