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I was called up in the war and...

I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: 'Brecht, amputate a leg!', I would reply, 'Certainly, Your Excellency!', and cut off the leg. If I was told, 'Perform a trepanning!' I opened the man's skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.

Bertolt Brecht 247 quotes

For what's the use of talking ...

For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?

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People who understand everythi...

People who understand everything get no stories.

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The human race tends to rememb...

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Bertolt Brecht 247 quotes

We attacked a foreign people a...

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

Bertolt Brecht 247 quotes

Love is also like a coconut wh...

Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

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Everyone needs help from every...

Everyone needs help from everyone.

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First the grub, then the moral...

First the grub, then the morals.

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It is not enough to demand ins...

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.

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The alienation effect in Germa...

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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Food first, then morality....

Food first, then morality.

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Who does Not Know the Truth, i...

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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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now mus...

Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

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What kind of times are they, w...

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

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The righteous one has no sense...

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

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What they could do with 'round...

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

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Little changes are the enemies...

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

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When crimes begin to pile up t...

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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All the gang of those who rule...

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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There are some with brains and...

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....