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For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Bertolt Brecht

Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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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Fall Rain Summer
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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Fortune Good Mighty Share
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right

For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

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