Epic Theater Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Then it was you who wounded Aravis?"
"It was I."
"But what for?"
"Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.

C.S. Lewis

#3. If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.

Taylor Swift

#4. A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#5. Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

Franz Grillparzer

#6. In order to do more. I've got to be more.

Jim Rohn

#7. I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.

George H. W. Bush

#8. America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers - Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left - on the monument to "Justice, the Guardian of Liberty" displayed on the eastern pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.

Patrick Mendis

#9. Why is it that the people you care about the most end up making you feel so meaningless?

Sudeep Nagarkar

#10. But where the warg howls, there also the orc prowls. - Aragorn

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. If everybody's thinking the same thing, then nobody's thinking.

George S. Patton

#12. The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.

Steve Martin

#13. Some people say about human beings, 'Dust to dust'.
But how can that be true of one
who changes road dust to doorway?
The crop appears to be one thing
when it is still in the field.
Then the transformation time comes,
and we see how it is: half chaff, half grain.

Rumi

#14. (memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

Julio Cortazar

#15. But a smooth and steadfast mind,
Gentle thoughts and calm desires,
Hearts with equal love combined,
Kindle never-dying fires: -
Where these are not, I despise
Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes.

Thomas Carew

#16. Building a temple atop a minehead, when the local tulpas haunted the dangerous galleries and tunnels of Below, had not been the wisest judgment ever made. I tried to remember if this had been my idea. Somehow I had the feeling that it was.

Jay Lake