Vce English: Stasiland Quotes

Front 1

Julia regards fixed appointments as intolerable constraints on her freedom.

Back 1

- About Julia

Front 2

I know that she needs to be alone but suffers from it too.

Back 2

- About Julia

Front 3

The edge of the linoleum table has come loose and without thinking she is stroking it flat.

Back 3

- Link to Julia's perceptions of the GDR

Front 4

Well... You don't look German.

Back 4

- In reference to Anna as an outsider.

Front 5

Stickle brick nature of it.

Back 5

- Anna's love for the German language

Front 6

I am fading, blending into the kitchen walls.

Back 6

- Anna feeling like an outsider

Front 7

I come from a place so remote, so primitive that people there have not been labeled and numbered.

Back 7

- Anna

Front 8

A small still woman.

Back 8

- About Miriam

Front 9

She is so slight that the voice comes from nowhere and everywhere at once... It wraps us up.

Back 9

- About Miriam

Front 10

... They break you, just like fiction.

Back 10

- Miriam

Front 11

Does telling your story mean you are free of it?

Back 11

- Anna about remembering

Front 12

Bruises will develop... Like a picture form a negative.

Back 12

- Remembering

Front 13

To remember or to forget- which is healthier?

Back 13

- Remembering/Forgetting

Front 14

What were the dangers of knowing? Or the dangers of ignoring the past and doing it all again, with different coloured flags?

Back 14

- Remembering/forgetting

Front 15

THe drunks dress either in tracksuits or old business suits.

Back 15

- Metaphor for waste products of capitolism

Front 16

A monstrous expanse of grey concrete, designed to make people feel small.

Back 16

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Front 17

Cranes are picking over holes open as wounds.

Back 17

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Front 18

In this, I think, it is much like East Germany itself.

Back 18

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Front 19

A large Mercedes emblem rotates, waltzing to the new tune here.

Back 19

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Front 20

the most perfected surveillance state of all time.

Back 20

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Front 21

The house of a Thousand Eyes

Back 21

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Front 22

This man wants to play spy games seven years after the fall of the wall.

Back 22

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Front 23

In a massive act of ideological redecoration.

Back 23

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Front 24

All I understand is that it only took forty years to create two very different kinds of Germans, and that it will be a while before those differences are gone.

Back 24

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Front 25

We are discriminated against... in this- this Kapitalismus. But we learn fast...

Back 25

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Front 26

You know there's no real unity in this country... Even after seven years.

Back 26

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