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   1# _Gattaca_ and _Stasiland_ quotes  
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   3### Character list  
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   5**Miriam** - married to Charlie. Tortured, escaped and rebelled as teenager.    
   6**Julia** - Anna's roommate. Raped & imprisoned.    
   7**Charlie** - dead husband of Miriam    
   8**Hagen Koch** - wall cartographer. rebels against regime because Stasi attempted to end marriage.    
   9**Herr Bohnsack** - former Stasi informant    
  10**Klaus** - singer    
  11**Frau Paul** - mother of Torsten who was taken away from her    
  12**Herr Boch** - former Stasi professor, recruits informants  
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  14## Oppression & discrimination  
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  16[g] "never suffered from the discrimination of a 'utero'"  
  17[g] society looks "so hard for any flaw that after a while that's all you see"  
  18[g] "I'll never understand what possessed my mother to put her faith in God's hands"  
  19[g] "I was never meant for this world"  
  20[g] "everything he needed to get into Gattaca.. except the will to do so"  
  21[s] "we are here to inform you today, that you don't exist any more" - re Miriam  
  22[s] "in this country, any kind of printing is forbidden" - Koch  
  23[s] "there is not unemployment in the GDR" - employment officer to Julia  
  24[s] "I inhabit the grey end of the spectrum" - Miriam  
  25[s] "a choreography of very nasty scouts"  re. Stasi informants  
  26[g] "I lent you my body, you lent me your dream"
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  28## Rebellion
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  30[s] "instead of shooting cardboard figures we'd have to shoot our own peope" - Herr Bohnsack  
  31[s] "I thought it was something we had to do because they were robbing us blind" - Koch, p.170  
  32[s] "by 1961, about 2000 people were leaving the East each day"  
  33[s] "if there's no way aroundn it, we just have to crash through somehow"  
  34[s] "I have to leave here forever - I have to leave my family, and I will not see my sisters again, and I have to go to the West"  
  35[s] "I have always had an acute sense of duty to obey the law" - Koch
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  37## Suffering
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  39[s] "they break you.. just like fiction" - Miriam  
  40[s] "I will do whatever you ask... but that plate stays there" - Koch  
  41[s] "I went to see him that time, and of course I wanted more" - Frau Paul, re Torsten  
  42[s] "she told himt o go to hell and found a smallish funeral establishment" - Miriam  
  43[s] "they really made sure that I didn't sleep" - Miriam  
  44[s] "I was basically no longer human" - Miriam  
  45[s] "I think I am definitely psychologically damaged" - Miriam  
  46[g] "a child conceinved in love has a better chance of happiness"  
  47[g] "I'd need an awful lot more than a drop if I was going to get anywhere" - Vincent re blood brothers