Brechtian Alienation Quotes & Sayings

When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant. — Noel Fielding

The moon is high. The sea is deep. They rock and rock and rock to sleep. — Sandra Boynton

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Chopin has done for the piano what Schubert has done for the voice. — Frederic Chopin

Work hard, have fun and make history. — Jeff Bezos

Whichever you choose, you're the one who has to deal with the consequences. So make your decision wisely, — Darynda Jones

Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions. — Harold Acton

You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the truth has no twin. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend. — Elaine S. Dalton

He communicated via napkin which was probably a Brechtian alienation device.
wonder if it possible for you to sleep on stage because I've got poem where I say things about you while you sleep?
I asked to hear the poem first and he wrote: whole point is your not knowing.
Hard to believe they fund his PhD. — Joe Dunthorne

Drive safe, dress safe, live safe. Retreat to the safest place of all. — Daryl Gregory

We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us. — Dion Fortune